Hello! I am trying to boot into kali linux live from my USB. I've downloaded kali linux live .ISO file from the official site, I've flashed it to my USB using Rufus, I am using Windows 10 on Monoblock HP 200 G4 All-in-One PC. I have secure boot turned off and virtualization turned on. My USB card has 14GB of space. While flashing the .ISO file I've set the parameters to this:Use DD or ISO: I've tried and DD and ISO, Persistent partition size: A little less than 9GB if it will need that extra small space, Partition scheme:I tried MBR and GPT, Add fixes to old BIOSes: turned off, FORMAT OPTIONS: File system: FAT32 (Default), Cluster size: 8192 bytes (Default), Quick format: on, Check device for bad blacks: off. Thats it with Rufus, now to the problem. I am booting into my USB from boot menu after shutting down and turning on. And when I choose my USB it just shows me grub screen. I've watched and read many posts about grub but only seen 1 person with the problem I have on reddit and it was not solved there. It shows grub> not grub rescue>. When I do ls I see: (memdisk) (hd0) (hd1) (hd2). And I can only go into memdisk, when trying to ls (hd0) it outputs: Unknown filesystem. Same with (hd1) and (hd2). ls (memdisk)/boot/grub/grub.cfg - That's the maximum far I can go. There are no other directories when I do ls (memdisk)/ other than boot/. And when I press TAB I see that I don't have the chainloader command but in other tutorials people have it. HELP ME. I AM BEING TORTURED BY THIS 3 DAYS AND NIGHTS. And also my PC works with GPT but it doesn't matter if I choose GPT ot MBR on Rufus.
Can't boot into kali linux live from USB.
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Brickwizard
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Did you read the Kali documentation before you made your attempt?
from their docs..
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As the distribution’s developers, you might expect us to recommend that everyone should be using Kali Linux. The fact of the matter is, however, that Kali is a Linux distribution specifically geared towards professional penetration testers and security specialists, and given its unique nature, it is NOT a recommended distribution if you’re unfamiliar with Linux or are looking for a general-purpose Linux desktop distribution for development, web design, gaming, etc.
Even for experienced Linux users, Kali can pose some challenges. Although Kali is an open source project, it’s not a wide-open source project, for reasons of security. The development team is small and trusted, packages in the repositories are signed both by the individual committer and the team, and - importantly - the set of upstream repositories from which updates and new packages are drawn is very small. Adding repositories to your software sources which have not been tested by the Kali Linux development team is a good way to cause problems on your system.
While Kali Linux is architected to be highly customizable, do not expect to be able to add random unrelated packages and repositories that are “out of band” of the regular Kali software sources and have it Just Work. In particular, there is absolutely no support whatsoever for the apt-add-repository command, LaunchPad, or PPAs. Trying to install Steam on your Kali Linux desktop is an experiment that will not end well. Even getting a package as mainstream as NodeJS onto a Kali Linux installation can take a little extra effort and tinkering.
If you are unfamiliar with Linux generally, if you do not have at least a basic level of competence in administering a system, if you are looking for a Linux distribution to use as a learning tool to get to know your way around Linux, or if you want a distro that you can use as a general purpose desktop installation, Kali Linux is probably not what you are looking for.""
In addition, misuse of security and penetration testing tools within a network, particularly without specific authorization, may cause irreparable damage and result in significant consequences, personal and/or legal. “Not understanding what you were doing” is not going to work as an excuse.
However, if you’re a professional penetration tester or are studying penetration testing with a goal of becoming a certified professional, there’s no better toolkit - at any price - than Kali Linux.
from their docs..
""
Is Kali Linux Right For You?
As the distribution’s developers, you might expect us to recommend that everyone should be using Kali Linux. The fact of the matter is, however, that Kali is a Linux distribution specifically geared towards professional penetration testers and security specialists, and given its unique nature, it is NOT a recommended distribution if you’re unfamiliar with Linux or are looking for a general-purpose Linux desktop distribution for development, web design, gaming, etc.
Even for experienced Linux users, Kali can pose some challenges. Although Kali is an open source project, it’s not a wide-open source project, for reasons of security. The development team is small and trusted, packages in the repositories are signed both by the individual committer and the team, and - importantly - the set of upstream repositories from which updates and new packages are drawn is very small. Adding repositories to your software sources which have not been tested by the Kali Linux development team is a good way to cause problems on your system.
While Kali Linux is architected to be highly customizable, do not expect to be able to add random unrelated packages and repositories that are “out of band” of the regular Kali software sources and have it Just Work. In particular, there is absolutely no support whatsoever for the apt-add-repository command, LaunchPad, or PPAs. Trying to install Steam on your Kali Linux desktop is an experiment that will not end well. Even getting a package as mainstream as NodeJS onto a Kali Linux installation can take a little extra effort and tinkering.
If you are unfamiliar with Linux generally, if you do not have at least a basic level of competence in administering a system, if you are looking for a Linux distribution to use as a learning tool to get to know your way around Linux, or if you want a distro that you can use as a general purpose desktop installation, Kali Linux is probably not what you are looking for.""
In addition, misuse of security and penetration testing tools within a network, particularly without specific authorization, may cause irreparable damage and result in significant consequences, personal and/or legal. “Not understanding what you were doing” is not going to work as an excuse.
However, if you’re a professional penetration tester or are studying penetration testing with a goal of becoming a certified professional, there’s no better toolkit - at any price - than Kali Linux.
I would reformat the stick (FAT32 again) and try it with LInux Mint to see if it works on your computer.
Failing that, download and install Balena's Etcher and burn it with that - https://etcher.balena.io/
Chris Turner
wizardfromoz
Failing that, download and install Balena's Etcher and burn it with that - https://etcher.balena.io/
Chris Turner
wizardfromoz
Hello. Thanks for reply! I am now learning Cyber Security and we use Kali Linux there. I can use parrot os if you recommend that one, but I don't know download the home or security version. And also I didn't see a live version of parrot. Thanks for reply again.
Hello! Thanks for reply. I think I found the source of the problem. It's the partition part. Like when you set it to some number of GBs to have a space dedicated to store the data you have downloaded or changed so when you boot into the usb again it won't be like a new Kali Linux without the changes you've made. And today I tried to flash Kali Linux to my usb without it. And it worked! I was shocked. Now I am going to school. I've placed Rufus flashing again Kali Linux to my usb with partition again but not with the whole space but 2gb less so if the problem is lack of space. Thanks again!
Brickwizard
Well-Known Member
There are around half a dozen or so dedicated built pen-testing distributions, add to this there are over 500 desktop distributions of Linux, all can have the "tools installed to them".
With Parrot, the home edition is a good all round distribution that you can easily add the tools to, Parotsec, & Hack-the-box are purely for pen-testing,
as a student I recommend you install your pentesting distribution either to a Pen-drive with persistence, a Virtual machine, or WSL, as you will at some point Bulk your installation, and it will be easier to replace without endangering anything on your main distribution
as a note, all pen-testing distributions expect you to be an experienced Linux user and competent at using the terminal and its commands
Hello again! I have a Virtual Machine on my PC but I need the live for another PC that is at the place I am learning CyberSecurity. And you can ask "You can install VM there too" but that PCs are very slow(cpu:celeron, ram:4GB). But I understood what you want to say and I am thanking you for that. Like the thing you want to say that is all the kali OSes are approximately the same. Just ones have some built in tools and some more additional stuff which I can download to the ordinary Linux too. So that means I can install ordinary kali to my usb and use it but I'll need to download all the tools... Did I understand you right????? I have some knowledge about programming and electronics but less about linux universe...
Brickwizard
Well-Known Member
sorry, I will try to make it clearer,
you can add the pen-testing tools to any Linux distribution, and they will work the same, Kali is not the easiest of Linux distributions to install, even experienced Linux users often have problems,
If you install say... Parrot home edition. You can use it as a daily drive to learn how Linux works. And install the tools for your school work.
Kali [or any other pen-testing distribution] expect anyone using them to be Linux competent and able to fix their own problems when you bulk the system [which you will do]
in short Kali is not an everyday " Kool" desktop, it is purely a tool
Ok, Understood! Thanks for advices... I'll try Parrot home edition. But I really didn't find using kali linux that hard but I got you. The problem is not always using but the errors/problems that you need to fix yourself without any tools for help(like in windows you have troubleshooter at least(it never works)) or even sometimes a new problem that happened because you deleted apple OS from mac computer and installed windows in which you tried to run linux so you get the error code no one have got till now.
And I want to give an update for people reading this post in the future to fix their problems. I found out that the problem is in partition part. If you at even have the smallest space possible for partition it will show you a grub screen from where you can boot to nothing(at least I didn't found one in 3 days. Probably because I don't know how to use grub). So you can maybe try flashing kali linux live without partition but after the flash is complete you can shrink the existing partition in windows disk management(or whatever disk manager you have depending on your OS) and create a healthy normal volume partition and see if that works.
Sooo... thanks for everyone, I am glad to know you all. It was the first ever post made by me in any of the forums so there is a chance that I didn't follow some standards(if the forum has one). Goodbye, good luck!
And I want to give an update for people reading this post in the future to fix their problems. I found out that the problem is in partition part. If you at even have the smallest space possible for partition it will show you a grub screen from where you can boot to nothing(at least I didn't found one in 3 days. Probably because I don't know how to use grub). So you can maybe try flashing kali linux live without partition but after the flash is complete you can shrink the existing partition in windows disk management(or whatever disk manager you have depending on your OS) and create a healthy normal volume partition and see if that works.
Sooo... thanks for everyone, I am glad to know you all. It was the first ever post made by me in any of the forums so there is a chance that I didn't follow some standards(if the forum has one). Goodbye, good luck!
