Make Live UEFI BIOS Compatible?

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I recently created a live Kali Linux image on my flash drive. It seems, however, a couple of my other computers come from the BIOS days... when I try to boot from my flash drive, it says “No operating system found!”

I was able to boot this on my modern UEFI laptop just fine, so I know it’s a compatibility issue. Is there a way to make a live disto backwards-compatible with UEFI? Do I simply need to add an extra boot sector with gparted or something? Or is the problem the fact that it’s a GPT table???

Kieran Ojakangas

Posted 2018-04-07T15:32:26.670

Reputation: 153

1"I recently created a live Kali Linux image on my flash drive" - using what method? – gronostaj – 2018-04-07T16:01:48.970

I simply used Rufus to install the Kali Linux ISO. Why? Was there a different version I was supposed to use? – Kieran Ojakangas – 2018-04-07T16:15:25.313

https://www.kali.org/download-kali-linux-revealed-book/ – Tim_Stewart – 2018-04-15T21:04:26.847

Answers

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See the askubuntu post Ubuntu live from USB with full persistence and NTFS describing how to use mkusb-dus to create a persistent live drive.

More info is found in :

harrymc

Posted 2018-04-07T15:32:26.670

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Thanks for your answer - it seems they are recommending NOT upgrading the system on a flash drive :/ makes sense given the speed I’ve been experiencing these days. At least I appear to have a spare M.2 SSD handy... – Kieran Ojakangas – 2018-04-10T01:51:54.627

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