Creating a multiboot USB drive.

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Creating a Multiboot USB Drive Using Jinn’s LiveUSB Constructor

Hello, I want to create a multiboot USB drive using the Jinn’s LiveUSB Constructor. The constructor itself comes with pre-built Windows-based systems for installation, WinPE, debugging tools, and templates for adding custom systems. After installing the constructor on the USB drive using the built-in image utility, I unpacked the downloaded ISO image (kali-linux-2024.4-live-everything-amd64.iso) into the path JINN/Linux/Kali*/. Then, I edited the menu.list file located at JINN/data/menu.list to specify the paths to the kernel and initrd.

After all these steps, the Kali option appeared in the boot menu when booting from the USB drive, but it failed to load. I then tried simply placing the ISO file in the folder without unpacking it, which yielded some results after editing the .list file. I was able to get a menu with boot options, but after selecting the first option, I encountered the following error:

BusyBox v1.37.0 (Debian 1:1.37.0-4) built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.
(initramfs) _

After some troubleshooting, I discovered that Kali couldn’t detect the files responsible for the file system, even though they were present when manually mounted. Next, I tried extracting the kernel and initrd files, placing them next to the ISO in the same folder, and updating the paths in the .list file. However, now Kali doesn’t boot at all, and the boot menu with options doesn’t even appear. Instead, I see an error message related to “Error 15,” which seems to be a bootloader issue.

Has anyone encountered a similar problem or knows how to resolve this? Any help would be greatly appreciated!

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sounds like your usb creator is windows biased, have you booted any other Linux distro with it?

Try ventoy instead, it will boot linux, windows or even mac osx, from ISO images

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This tool is designed to include Linux images, and it comes with pre-configured templates, including one for Kali. I’m not using Ventoy because Jinn’s LiveUSB includes a set of tweaks and additional elements that can’t be easily implemented with a standard setup.

Here’s the author’s distribution link, if anyone is interested: Jinn’sLiveUSB

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that link is to a windows USB creator, it wont boot linux windows uses bcedit linux uses grub2

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Good morning. On the forum there are three instructions for adding Linux distributions to the assembly, and it is located in the official FAQ, I can’t attach them I get “Error 403”, but on the forum you can see them (they are at the end of the entire FAQ list). Plus, after installing on a flash drive, it has directories in which you are supposed to add your linux images, as well as in .list files contain annotated paths to these directories.

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what your asking is not related to Kali but to a 3rd party USB creator application that is clearly not working as intended. I have not used the one you linked to, nor would I.

I have used Ventoy and I know it will boot any ISO image, Windows, Unix, Linux or Mac OSX and so that is why I suggested that course of action.

The Kali docs on the main website (not the forum) are about creating a Kali USB with persistence, not a multiboot USB to boot different OS from a single USB device.
Have you been looking on the old forum? I certainly can’t find anything here on the present one about multibooting.

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