I thought I was getting somewhere by finding a portable vers. of a prog. to run in Tails, but they are dead-set against Internet access in it outside of Tor. A supposed method to allow it in a vid on YT, no longer works. I did take the opportunity to burn a Live disk in Linux from it, using the dd command above. It burnt a LOT faster than in Rufus.
The first time I tried to install Kicksecure in it, it worked! This was even burning onto one of the SeaGlass drives I’d had probs. with before. Kicksecure looks very promising, IF there’s a way to disable Tor and/or allow third-party apps internet access. With a presumably good Live disk on a USB, and full of something (perhaps enthusiasm?), I proceeded to spend lots of time trying to install it to other USB drives. It failed on two yet different 32 GB SeaGlass drives, and to make it complete, it failed to install on the original ancient SanDisk it originally worked on. That makes it four fresh tries, using the Live ISO burnt with with dd: One of them a success, and three more failures - including a non-Verbatim drive which had previously worked. In each failure this time, and most of the previous ones, it gave the error about bootloader_config not finishing after 600 secs. Failures occurred burning from at least two different USB drives that had worked for the Live ISO on other occasions.
This seems like an uninitialized variable problem in the installation from the Live disk; or a timing problem. It manifested if I booted up the Live USB with the GUID partition entry, or with its USB boot menu entry. It looks like the problem isn’t Rufus, nor is it the SeaGlass drives. One of the SeaGlass drives had been triggered to go into a Read-Only mode. I couldn’t even format it until I went into Windows and did “DISKPART”. I navigated to the drive, and did “CLEAN”. This erases it, but makes it it writable. I think you have a problem in your “bootloader_config” script, causing installing it to be a mostly hit or miss process (mostly miss). It looks quite nice, from the two times the installer completed successfully..