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Thread: USB multiboot support for Kali dropped !?

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    USB multiboot support for Kali dropped !?

    I have a multiboot FAT32 USB with Kali, other LiveCD's and data. It was working fine until I tried to update. The last I used was the kali-linux-2016-W36-amd64.iso and want to update to kali-linux-2016-W49-amd64.iso. Now there are problems booting. Does this have anything to do with a kernel rewrite?

    The official way still works, dd to USB, but that is not user friendly with a 32GB USB and all my other stuff
    I get the error "IO charset ascii not found, mounting root file system failed", when booting from USB.
    I get no error, but only X-mouse on black background in graphic mode and no desktop, when booting the ISO file from USB in virtualbox.

    If you want to recreate my errors:
    -use 4+ GB FAT32 USB
    -extract the "live" folder to USB
    -extract the "isolinux" folder and put inside the live folder
    -rename isolinux.cfg to syslinux.cfg
    -get syslinux.exe 6.03 [for windows]
    -run "syslinux MBR.cmd"
    Code:
    @echo off
    set DISK=%~d0
    IF %DISK%==%systemdrive% goto end
    IF %DISK%==\\ goto end
    set MAP=%~dp0
    echo Installing Syslinux MBR on drive %DISK%
    "%MAP%syslinux.exe" --version
    pause
    "%MAP%syslinux.exe" -m -a -d /live/isolinux/ %DISK% 
    attrib -s -h %DISK%\live\isolinux\ldlinux.sys
    attrib -s -h %DISK%\live\isolinux\ldlinux.c32
    echo done!
    pause
    :end
    On my multiboot USB I use a menu to choose the different LiveCD's, and all others boot just fine. The booting of Kali works until the squashfs is loaded.
    USB boot mounting.jpg
    ISO boot mounting.jpg
    Last edited by qwik; 2016-12-11 at 15:45. Reason: added images

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