error with syslinux when using universal usb installer

If this doesn’t work either, you may need to do some searching on how to boot from USB on your particular machine. If this doesn’t work and the PC boots straight back into Windows, hold down the SHIFT key while clicking Restart in the Windows start menu and select Boot from USB.

On some PCs, you can simply restart the machine, and if the USB is plugged in, it should boot to Kali Linux 2021 Live automatically. It may take 10-30 minutes to write the Kali Linux 2021 Live ISO to USB depending on your hardware and size of USB. If you see a warning about Syslinux, click Yes. Set a Persistent partition size, in this example, 4GB, though this can be as large as you want depending on your USB size.Click SELECT and browse to the Kali Linux 2021 Live ISO you downloaded.Write the ISO to your USB drive using a tool like Rufus, Universal USB Installer or UNetbootin. You can do this using Windows Disk Manager.

Note: Before writing the ISO, it is strongly recommended that you delete all partitions from the USB drive if any exist, otherwise it may not boot properly.

Download Kali Linux 2021 (Live boot) 2.

If you have a torrent client, use the Kali torrent download link to speed up the download (10 minutes) as sometimes throttle web downloads heavily. In this guide we are using the Kali Linux Intel/AMD 64-Bit (Live) image, which most modern PCs support. An updated guide will be published shortly. This guide has not been tested on Kali 2022.1 (released Feb 2022).

Error with syslinux when using universal usb installer