Wednesday, March 4, 2015

Kali won't boot without USB flash drive



I have installed Linux Kali on one of partitions of my hard drive alongside Windows 10 from USB Flash Drive (I had a bootable live version with HDD install option) and it's not booting when the flash drive from which I installed it is not inserted. When I turn on computer, GRUB appears, I choose Kali and it keeps showing me this



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I really don't know what can cause this. I've tried to set kali install partition as primary and flag it to boot but it didn't work. At first I have thought that maybe this is caused by Windows which blocks hard drive after shutdown (I needed to boot to Windows and then reboot to access drives when I was using live version) but if so, then why it boots after inserting flash drive? Furthermore when it boots properly (with flashdrive) I can remove it and it works fine.


Answer



During the installation process, the Kali Linux installer (Debian re-skinned) is prone to placing the boot partition onto the USB. To remedy this you will need to reformat the USB, and ensure that during the installation process the boot partition is placed onto the correct hard drive.


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