Hello , so lately i've been trying to donwload kali linux on my usb drive as a presistance and i've been going throught some problems that i can't seem to search for anything so i thought i could ask you guys , so i as i am booting my usb drive and trying to install kali linux i get a screen that starts doing a "matrix" of codes and it says something like this
"[1000.109748] ehci-pci 0000:00:02.1: dma_driect_map_sg: overflow 0x0000000011963e00+4096 of device mask ffffffff" i tried rebooting my pc and doing it again and it still doesen't work , i am really confused . i am looking forward to fixing it but if you guys have any idead .I would appreciate if you could help me because this is so frusturating for me right now.
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What computer are you trying this on and what are the specs?

Have you tried some other live linux distros to see if they boot?

hey i've seen your relpy thanks for the time.I have a HP pc and my specs are :
Processor : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5600+ 2.80 GHz.
Ram : 5.00 GB (3.50 GB usable) .
System type : 32-bit Operating System.
Grahpic Card : NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT , 1GB Dedicated Video Memory.
Windows 7.

And i haven't tried other live linux distros , only kali linux beacause im not interested in other , i am just trying for Kali Linux!

I've always had good luck with HP pc's but I never had any with Nvidia graphics cards. Another thing you could do is install VirtualBox on Windows 7 then boot the linux iso within VirtualBox.


Kali has a reputation for being difficult for a Linux beginner. I'd recommend starting with a beginner distro like Mint, Debian(this is what Kali is based on), Ubuntu, etc. Then once you're comfortable with Linux in general you'll have a much easier time with Kali.

i really don't like the VirtualBox because it's way to laggy somehow and it's not what i want.
So if i go to my friends pc and download it on a usb and make kali linux as Presistance and i come to my pc and just boot it , would that work or i need to install it again?

Technically it should work. But with UEFI stuff it's possible that it won't. What I'd do is get the kali iso onto your win7 computer and use either https://www.balena.io/etcher/, http://rufus.ie or win32 disk imager to write a live usb. Then boot to this usb and install it as persistent to another usb.