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    Boot Kali from USB on Surface Pro 2

    I have been trying to get Kali to boot from a USB drive on my Surface Pro 2 w/ Win 8.1, but can not seem to get it to work. I can take the USB and put it in my desktop computer and it boots into Kali no problem. I have created the /efi/boot directory on the USB drive and put bootx64.efi and grub.cfg in it. I also disabled "Secure Boot Control". I have tried going to PC Setting/Update and recovery/Recovery/Advanced setup and selecting to boot from USB. Does anyone have any suggestion or tell me what am I missing? Thank you.

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    Have you tried this? The first method (hold Vol-down button, press power button, when booting, release Vol-down).

    Good luck!

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    Yes, I have tried both methods. I did use the unetbootin-Windows-585 to build my USB drive from the Kali ISO(kali-linux-1.0.6-amd64.iso). I also tried it with and without adding the efi/boot folders with the above mentioned files. Have any other suggestions?

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    And what is your motherboard, maybe the problem in the BIOS settings ?

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    It does not have BIOS it has UEFI. it is a windows surface pro.

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    I'm having same problem. Hope someone can assist. Tried disabling Secure Boot.There's nothing like Fast Boot and legacy options on Surface Pro 2. I've tried adding the folders/files mentioned. No luck. Is there an instruction that works out there, where links aren't broken.

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