#Cant install kali linux on mac install#
#Cant install kali linux on mac update#
#Cant install kali linux on mac iso#

#Cant install kali linux on mac install#

Example: If your main disk has 250 GB and you need 40 GB free space to install Kali Linux to, enter 210g. It's the last one listed in the output of diskutil cs list. LvUUID is the UUID of the Logical Volume. Open Terminal and enter: diskutil cs list I doubt that the disk partition tool in the Kali Live USB drive succeeds with that. Since you probably have a CoreStorage partition after installing El Capitan you have to resize it. Reboot to Internet Recovery Mode by holding alt cmd R.You will see a spinning globe animation while booting. Disable System Integrity Protection in Terminal with csrutil disable Then I booted to Recovery HD by holding cmd R while booting. The thumb drive will be bootable without installing rEFInd.

#Cant install kali linux on mac iso#

Then dd the iso to the thumb drive: sudo dd if=/Users/your_user_name/Downloads/ of=/dev/rdisk2 bs=1m My thumb drive had the disk identifier disk2. Then I dd'ed the kali iso image to a thumb drive:įirst get the disk identifier of the thumb drive and unmount it: diskutil list

After configuring El Capitan I downloaded Kali Linux and rEFInd 0.9.2.

First I made a fresh install of El Capitan 10.11.1 after repartitioning the internal drive to 1 partition with a GUID partition table.

The install was successful, the big problem is the Broadcom wireless card though. I set up a MacBook Air 2013 from scratch and tried to install Kali Linux 2.0. Long process, I don't remember all of it. How I configured it: Iunzipped it, I had to turn my security settings off in the recovery mode, and I think that worked for me after I ran it as it's is supposed to be ran, as said in the link. I may have messed smth up on the way.īTW my laptop can't read my USB, which is to be expected, but I will be able to turn into readable later, won't I? There is a very high probability I've messed up somewhere before, because as I said, I've been running into almost every problem out there, googling, and trying to go around it, most of the time not even sure what I am doing, so.

#Cant install kali linux on mac update#

Make sure u have the latest firmware update installedĪny help is appreciated :) I'm really getting frustrated trying to install Kali, first time though. If I try to boot the legacy folder it says:Įrror: Not Found while loading legacy loader So now I try to reboot my Mac, after the rEFInd boot screen shows up I plug-in the usb and I get only one volume (the legacy OS one) and the guide for installing Linux says try installing rEFInd and try again, but I already have rEFInd (you need to have 3 volumes as it shows here).

Without going too much into details, some of which include (problems downloading rEFInd, burning the iso image onto the thumb drive and etc.). I then decided to install Kali Linux 2.0, and boy it's been one problem after another, so far nothing has gone the way it's supposed to. I updated to El Capitan yesterday (on MacBook Air 2014).