Originally Posted by
varunendra
It is not always the 'method'. Sometimes it can be the USB flash drive itself, sometimes it can be a particular BIOS which boots only with some particular kind of flash drives or boot managers.
For instance, I had a Kingston Pen drive long ago which couldn't boot 'Any' computer that booted fine with a transcend pen drive of the same capacity, same methods, same boot managers.
Currently, I have two 8GB Kingston (Ubuntu/Lubuntu), and a 1GB PNY (clonezilla - created using Unetbootin) drives. Tried to boot a Compaq laptop a few days ago - failed to boot. It booted fine with USB hard disk (any kind of boot-manager - YUMI (whatever it uses), LILO, Grub2..). All those pendrives can boot other systems perfectly fine.
So the point is - USB booting still seems to be a job of patchworks at the firmware level. There is no one standard that one can recommend confidently for all systems. Just try different available ones (different filesystems (fat/fat32... even ext2 in case of "Slitaz"), boot-loaders, creation methods etc.).
(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:
Code:
[ 12.640732] Kernel Panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x000000100
[ 12.640732]
[ 12.640733] drm_kms_helper: panic occurred, switching back to text console
And that is all.. This is the same error I was getting with Kali Live.. Trying now to boot up diffrent hardware, but taking your advice, before I do so, I've ordered in for a bunch of pendrives of different makes..
From what I understand about Kernel Panic, its an internal error which is fatal.. so.. the install definitely has a bad block or something.. im concluding that this pendrive is whack.
Originally Posted by
varunendra
As for this -
I don't think adding persistence can add any complications. It is same for all methods - a "persistent" flag in the boot-loader, which looks for a "casper-rw" (or "home-rw") partition or file. If the device is able to boot, the function (and 'complexity') of persistence will be same for all methods.
Thats very helpful, thanks.
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