Kali Linux - Live USB Boot

[bernardosgr]

Hey there, I've had a lot of trouble ith this, googled around a lot (with no result) and then gave up and decided to post a question.

As the title says, I'm trying to boot Kali Linux off of a USB stick with 8 GB memmory. It has been loaded with the ISO through Win32DiskImager successfully (whatever that might mean)... But the first time I tried to boot from it, the USB stick didn't show up in the boot menu, so I thought that might be due to some BIOS incompatibility...

And I decided to install PLoP boot manager. It gives me an option to boot from the USB but it can't seem to find a boot device... It throws a:
"Boot Error. No Boot Device Detected."
after a bunch of:
"Loading UHCI driver"
then it recognizes 2 hosts and tries to scan the ports, I believe;
"Driver Removed"
"Loading OHCI Driver"
no hosts recognized I believe;
"Driver Removed"
Aaaaand, the error...

The stick is recognized on windows, I can use it, format it, change it's partitions, etc.

I'm on a Samsung np350v5c-s04pt . So far I can only say bad things about this laptop but well...

Can someone help me? Here goes my system information:

Thanks a lot in advance

 

[skittle]

Remake your liveusb without plop.. In bios boot menu check to see if your USB is listed under hard drives and not USB... This is the case for many mobo

For making USB I always use lili..
Www.linuxliveusb.com
Or Rufus
http://rufus.akeo.ie

 

[Alabalcho]

@Bernardo - you DON'T make bootable Linux USB by just dumping ISO over. As Skittle said, use an utility specially made for that. To add to the list - I have used UNetbootin with great success. Don't know whether it will work with Kali, though. I would not recommend Kali for first-timers <redacted by moderator>.

 

[bernardosgr]

@Bernardo - you DON'T make bootable Linux USB by just dumping ISO over. As Skittle said, use an utility specially made for that. To add to the list - I have used UNetbootin with great success. Don't know whether it will work with Kali, though. I would not recommend Kali for first-timers <redacted by moderator>.

Thanks for the answer lol. I didn't just dump the ISO, in fact I mention Win32DiskImager, which I used for "putting it in there", the word dumping is merely used due to my ignorant lack of any other appropriate vocabulary.

On a different note, I'm hardly a first-timer using Kali and have used it extensively, just not with Live USB boots... And "hacker" is such an unpleasant word, <redacted by moderator>

 

[bernardosgr]

Remake your liveusb without plop.. In bios boot menu check to see if your USB is listed under hard drives and not USB... This is the case for many mobo

For making USB I always use lili..
Www.linuxliveusb.com
Or Rufus
http://rufus.akeo.ie

I used Win32DiskImager, which is the tool suggested by the Kali documentation. I also tried lili USB but it just seemed to install a virtualbox selfboot image on the drive... I'll try what you're saying about the hard drives and I'll try Rufus too.

Thanks for the help man, I'll be sure to post an update 😉

 

[skittle]

Lili optionally installs a portable virtualbox that is configured to automatically boot your just installed live USB.

Pretty much lili just sets a boot flag, installs syslinux, and extracts the I so to the USB drive.

Win32diskimager is essentially dd but for windows... Ie directly writes Iso image to USB drive blocks

 

[Chris679]

Try using a different USB? Make sure its not a UDisk..