![]() I ended up with a strange occurrence when rebooting that I had to select the windows partition for boot rather than the mac EFI. I tried many methods of getting things working, even following the instructions on the Kali Linux website didn’t work exactly. 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. 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. Although things have gotten easier with some new tools. Getting Kali Linux, or any other Linux distribution, up and running on your Mac can sometimes be problematic. The video below also gives a comprehensive overview of setting up the Kali Linux USB Live Drive as well as partitioning the disk correctly and configuring the persistence partitions. This involves creating a new partition for storing the persistence data on, and creating a mount point for this. However, in order to make this function work there are a few procedures you need to follow in addition to the above. In the files that I have provided the enterprise.cfg file has been edited already to allow for persistence booting of Kali Linux, so that the changes you make and files you create are saved for the next session. There will be some manual editing required to the enterprise.cfg file so that the correct Linux distribution name is displayed but this is easily done within text edit on OSX. In theory this will work with any Debian based Linux (such as Ubuntu for example). That’s pretty much all there is to it, go ahead and reboot your mac holding down the option key and you should have the efi boot menu as an option from where you can boot into your Linux distribution. Rename the downloaded file to be “boot.iso” and then copy this inside the boot folder on the USB thumb drive. All you now need to do is download the Kali Linux. ![]() Inside this you you will find several files. ![]() Inside the efi folder, is another folder called boot. ![]() All you need to do now is download the file at this link. These files are what is created by the free tool “ Mac Linux USB Loader”Īfter you extract thee files, copy the whole root folder (titled efi) to your USB drive partition. So I am assuming you already have a FAT partition on your USB thumb drive that is around 4GB in size. If you’re already familiar with partitioning the drive then you can continue, if not I advise you to check my previous posting and come back here later. In my last post I went through the details of partitioning and setting up your Linux USB live drive with persistence, specifically for Kali Linux. ![]()
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