Phillip Dennis: > I spent several hours yesterday trying to install Tails 0.22.1 on a > USB stick with only partial success. > > I first used a live DVD to boot and then installed using the Tails > Installer. This appeared to work except my computer then wouldn't > recognize it as a bootable device. It's a new (1 yr old) Gateway PC.
This can happen on some hardware that cannot boot GUID correctly. So for example the various buggy laptop models: https://tails.boum.org/support/known_issues/ You should check the BIOS setting to make sure it allows legacy BIOS boot, and not only UEFI. > I then reformatted the stick as Master Boot Record. It looked like > Tails Installer only allows GUID. From there, I used the Linux on a > Pen installer (forget the exact name). This worked and boots but it > doesn't allow me to use a persistent partition. > > Any way to use Tails Installer to create a MBR rather than GUID > partition? It is only possible to create a persistent volume on a USB stick that has been created using Tails Installer. So you should really try to solve that. Changing a bit of BIOS configuration might be enough. -- sajolida
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