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c# worked for me... tho, yes, havent dabbed at it for ages.. but i think python is the future

@varun - there is truth to what you say about chipsets and pendrives... i took the same iso and put it on different pendrives, using the same installation method. i tried a transcend too . . but in...

no,, no UEFI. I tried booting on a system with UEFI, didnt even pick up my pendrive. no kernel panic..

hahah... sh*t that sounds like a real bummer. but if all this effort wasnt involved, I might...

this is definitely a hardware issue now. managed to use the same pendrive with the same install on another machine.. everything is working spotless... Sony vaio, i3, whereas my machine is i5...

im...

memtest is 79%pass w/o errors... however, getting hotter with my research... http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1968798

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1843810&page=2

running the memtest... this guy was getting the same error as me (Call Trace), and his solution lay in the bios setting... however, i havent upgraded/downgraded my bios at all.... havent touched...

Ill run a memtest tonight... ive already checked the sums and everything is in order. will do the VM later, no time now, work and everything...

im continuing to test different brands and models...

ok.. i got a new kingston pendrive... and i installed backbox 32 bit.. same results as above. tried 3 diff methods of installing.. still goes into Kernel Panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!...

I tried Kali with unetbooting and the Startup disk creator.. both the installs stayed stuck on the part which involves the extraction of the SQUASHFS... so im concluding that this was a bad iso.
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(Scratch this - i have a dell gig)

or its the usb... a sad old Sandisk. I just installed backbox on the same pendrive and tried to boot, gives me this error:



[ 12.640732] Kernel Panic -...

thanks for your response... yes i know its debian and ive been thru a lotta manual config on other linux distros in the past... (infact, before 10.04 came along, everything reqd getting ur hands...

Also, Access point Kakar is what i was using to connect to the internet when my router was acting up... its my phone...

I need some clarifying :-

consider the following statements:-


First, you’ll need compatible computer hardware. Kaliis supported on i386, amd64, and ARM (both armel and armhf) platforms. The...

Nice.


You can. Ofcourse you can. The internet is a thriving hub of knowledge. You just need to catalogue it in a sensible manner and see where it goes from there. Get your hands on the syllabus...

thanks for the clarity on the 32 bit/64 bit doubt. infact that is why i used the 32 bit version, for maximum compatibility...

however, from the docs available at the kali linux website, the dd...

@varun - no no, it was set to channel 12. positively. no doubts involved. impeccable clarity.

thanks a bunch again. see if u can help out here tho??? -...

I ve been trying to create a live bootable usb key running kali linux.

so i downloaded the 32 bit version from the site and followed the instructions, (using the dd command) and created a pendrive...

u nailed it bro. switched from channel 12 to 6. works like a german engine. thanks a bunch.

here is the output. sorry for the long time, works kept me occupied. been tinkering and praying in the meanwhile.



*************** info trace ***************

***** uname -a *****

Linux...

hi qill.

sorry, my bad. this is the output for lshw -C network:


*-network
description: Wireless interface
product: Broadcom Corporation
vendor:...

I have a wifi router at home, and I use ubuntu 12.04 on my laptop. The problem is that though the wifi works on the laptop, as in it detects wifi networks and connects to them, and it will detect...

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well done mate. it was obviously lack of hardware then. mark the post as [SOLVED] if u satisfied.

cheers.

I'd go with arpanaut. he makes sense.