Burn Kali CD 2. DD bootable USB 3. With both connected to Mac, reboot 4. Hold 'C' at boot sound Note: If you have rEFIt or rEFInd installed, you can use it, just make sure you select the optical media, not USB 5. Enjoy [Edit] Sorry it took so long to respond, I am working on this now, and will let everyone know the results as I get them.
Recently I was trying to install Kali Live on a USB drive with persistence and struggled to find a tutorial online that was simple and actually worked. After some trial and error I figured out how to do it correctly and decided to make an article for anyone who is experiencing the same difficulty I did. You will need an USB with at least 8GB.
Mine is 132GB, nice and large. Step 1: Universal USB Installer Visit the following link and download the Universal USB Installer: Step 2: Download Latest Edition of Kali Linux Visit the following link and download the appropriate Kali ISO. Step 3: Create Bootable USB After Kali is finished downloading, run Universal USB Installer and chose 'Kali Linux' from the list of Linux Distributions to install on your USB flash drive.
You can alternatively chose one of the other distributions listed. Click 'browse' to navigate through your folders.
Under downloads, select the Kali Linux iso file you just finished downloading. Indicate the drive of your USB and hit 'create' After the process completes, you will have a live bootable Kali USB drive. Step 4: Prepare Your Partitions Use your new USB to boot into the system.
You'll most likely have to restart your computer and hit F12 to get into the boot menu where you will select the brand name of the USB drive you're using. After it loads select 'Live USB Persistence'Go to your applications and select GParted. This is where it can get confusing because existing references contradict each other and the results depend on what your partitions looked like to begin with. For me, there were 2 existing partitions that filled up the entire partition space: /dev/sda1 and /dev/sda2. I right clicked on /dev/sda2, selected resize, and made the partition smaller.
This left me with unallocated partition space. I right clicked the newly created 'unallocated' partition space, selected 'new', selected ext4, and named the partition 'persistence'. I then applied all changes and closed GParted. Step 5: Mount Open your terminal and type the following: mkdir /mnt/usb mount /dev/sda2 /mnt/usb /mnt/usb/persistence.conf umount /mnt/usb Step 6: Test To see if it worked correctly, type 'gedit Kali' then save. Restart your computer and prompt into Kali Live Persistence.
Once you're loaded, click on the folder icon in your dash to dock panel. You should see a file named 'Kali' if everything was set up properly.
Getting Kali Linux, or any other Linux distribution, up and running on your Mac can sometimes be problematic. Although things have gotten easier with some new tools. As a Macbook Pro user (mid 2014 model) I wanted to be able to use Kali Linux on my Macbook in a USB liveboot mode, with persistence. One primary reason for wanting to maintain persistence is that there is quite a bit of setup involved to get all the drivers working, and I didn’t want to have to go through all of that each time I booted into Linux. I tried many methods of getting things working, even following the instructions on the Kali Linux website didn’t work exactly. I ended up with a strange occurrence when rebooting that I had to select the windows partition for boot rather than the mac EFI. Below are my instructions on how I set up this live USB with persistence, it’s produced reliable results and hopefully it will do for you to.
The process was done using my Macbook Pro mid 2014 model, running OSX El Capitan. There’s a few things you will need in order to get started. A USB stick with minimum of 8GB storage (I’m using a 16GB scan disk USB3.0 thumb drive). Download the free software “ Mac Linux USB Loader” from here. Download the latest build of Kali Linux (I use the amd64 version) and keep the.iso file in your downloads folder STEP 1. First we need to prepare the USB stick. We will use the MAC OSX native disk utility tool for this.
Open the Disk utility tool, and select the correct USB device (in my case SanDisk Cruzer.). Click on “ Erase” and choose the following options. Name – Kali Linux.
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Format – MS-DOS (FAT). Scheme – Master Boot Record. Press the “ Erase” button.
The Disk Utility will then run through it’s formatting process. When finished click on “D one“. You should now have a single clean partition on your USB drive as shown below. Now the USB disk has been prepared we can move onto the next step, which will be to setup the drive using the “ Mac Linux USB Loader“. STEP 2. Open up the Mac Linux USB Loader software and select “ Create Live USB“. This will bring up a finder window, where you can navigate to your downloaded Kali Linux.iso disk image.
Select the Kali Linux disk image that you downloaded earlier. On the next screen you will see your USB thumb drive listed with he name “kali Linux” (if you named it that when formatting). Select this USB drive and click “ Next”. On this screen click on “ Begin Installation“. Once this has completed, you should now find a directory structure on the USB disk like this:- /efi/boot inside the boot folder there will be a couple of.efi files and a “boot.iso” disk image. STEP 3.
There’s one final step we need to take in order to ensure that Kali Linux boots in persistence mode every time. We need to edit the enterprise configuration file. Open up the Mac Linux USB Loader again, and select the option “ Setup USB Device“. In the new window, select the Kali Linux USB drive from the left side. This is a list of the various available bootable USB drives. Once the correct drive is selected click on “ Edit Enterprise Configuration File“.
This will open a text edit window with the configuration file. You need to change the “ hostname” from “ka li” to “k ali persistence“. Save this file, and close. Your USB bootable disk is now ready. Reboot your Macbook Pro while holding down the “alt / option” key. You will be presented with a boot option list, select the “EFID” boot option.
This will present another menu where you can select the boot mode, and the available Linux Distributions. Kali Linux should then boot up and now you have a Linux Live session running on your machine. There’s now just one more thing we need to do in order to setup persistence and make it work correctly. STEP 4. We will use Linux tools to resize the partition. You can use the GUI tool “GParted” or it can be done through the terminal. Here’s the terminal commands:-.
end=7gb. read start /mnt/myusb/persistence.conf. umount /dev/sdb3.
We are pretty much done! All that remains now is to reboot (using the option key again to boot into Linux). Once into Kali Linux create a new folder on the desktop, or a file in the documents folder.
Reboot again, and check that it’s still there. If so then congratulations you’ve done everything right and you now have a live bootable USB drive running Kali Linux in persistence mode on your Macbook Pro. Now all that remains is to get the Wireless adapter working. This is by far the most difficult part of the whole process, the broadcom drivers for Linux aren’t well supported, and depending on the model year of your Macbook Pro will depend on what chipset version and driver you need.