booting from live device space probelm

I am trying to perform data-recover recovery using extundelete (which didn’t help) and ext4magic on a live USB and it requires me to update, upgrade and install the packages. (and some times apt-get -f install) in order to prepare for the recovery command. The issue that it’s always popping up that disk is almost out … Read more

how to install WIndows 8/10 on Dell Venue Pro (Uefi) after having damaged partitions

My device is Dell Venue Pro 11 which came with Windows 8 x64 pre-installed on the SSD. Previous issues -> Firstly I installed Ubuntu on dual-boot in the same SSD: after doing that Windows stopped booting, i.e. I was only able to enter Ubuntu. Secondly I tryed recovering my Windows partition by using Testdisk and … Read more

Ubuntu first boot showing error, ‘failed to start: show plymouth boot screen’

I have a dell Inspiron 5558 laptop with nvidia graphics card, and genuine windows 10. I tried to install ElementaryOS dual boot from bootable pendrive. But when i boot, it is showing only boot log files, i can barely read. At the end it stops at an error msg, ‘failed to start: show plymouth bootscreen’ … Read more

How to get casper mount home-rw from a luks encrypted partition

I am building a live system using casper. It is supposed to mount a luks encrypted partition labeled home-rw. The luks partition is unlocked early during boot by means of an entry in crypttab. After boot with grub2 specifying the persistent kernel flag, I find that the partition appears correctly under /dev/disk/by-label but it is … Read more

Do software for creating Live Medias work whatever the CPU architecture of the target is?

So say with a software, you’re flashing an image of Linux distro in a certain CPU architecture (say x86-32) to a USB drive & it’s been know to work quite well. Then with the image of the same distro, of the same version, but in a different CPU architecture (say powerpc), how do we know … Read more

Would it be possible to download Kali Linux with the latest packages already installed?

Would it be possible to download Kali Linux with the latest packages already installed? I got this pendrive that I want to use with encrypted persistence, but installing the packages with sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade takes forever. I would like to flash the USB again with a full version of Kali, all … Read more

Multiboot USB with OTG Windows

How can I create a multiboot USB with Windows On The Go as 1 of the boot options? Ideally with MultiBootUSB. Maybe I can create Windows OTG ISO from original one? Tried to find answer from Creating a multi boot usb drive containing windows to go, Ubuntu and falcon fours, but failed, because answer was … Read more

Cannot normally boot Tails from USB on Clevo N857EK1

I cant normally boot Tails on my laptop.It start freezing when I press button Start (See photo) or when choosing Wi-Fi. Please see my Bios setting.I try with different settings but it doesnt help.Also the same situation when I try other USB ports,other USB drive.Also I write image to USB drive with UltraIso and Etcher … Read more