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. 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. 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).

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