But make sure you put it into /EFI/Boot folder in your USB along with the 3 files in step 4 and change the name to grub.cfg. Note: You can download the file here too: grub.txt. Create a file named grub.cfg in /EFI/Boot in your USB with the following contents: Then put them into /EFI/Boot folder you created in step 3.ĥ. Download boot圆4.efi, MokManager.efi (don't know if this is needed, but I just do it anyway), and grub圆4.efi from here: Create a folder /EFI/Boot in your USB (You now have some data of Kali Linux in your USB already). I haven't gotten to it yet, just got home from work. I did get RUFUS before work this morning. I use it to make all sorts of Operating systems from Linux, o2warp, eos and more. I then tried creating a bootable USB stick with 'Win32DiskImager.' isn't the best solution to make Kalli on a usb, go get RUFUS :

Help would be much appreciated as my career and school depends on this. I've seen many threads about this, but nothing seems to work for me? But I am at a total loss, as to why I simply can't create a working bootable USB, when I've done that multiple times before with other OS. I am familiar with Kali, using it through virtualbox for school and hobby. I've literally tried everything for 4 hours now and I can't seem to be able to install Kali as my main OS. That runs for 3 seconds and brings me back to the install screen with multiple options. 'there was a problem reading data from the cd-rom.' I then chose graphical install and once I go through language and country selection I get this message: So then I boot with the USB stick and get greeted with the familiar Kali installer, giving me multiple options.

Under UEFI I don't get any options really, but under Legacy it lists my USB stick. I plugged that into my other Desktop which is running Fedora. I then tried creating a bootable USB stick with 'Win32DiskImager.' For Fedora I used Fedora media writer and it worked just fine, as I installed Fedora on an old desktop as main OS. So I figured I'll create another bootable USB like I did with Fedora before. Which is terrible, because Kali won't even work without be turning off Secure Boot, which defeats the purpose. Hey, so I've been using Kali for a while now as a virtual image on VirtualBox, on my Linux Fedora KDE.

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