Completed the usual
apt-get update
agt-get dist-upgrade
aptitude safe-upgrade
Reboot -> still on 3.8 kernel
Linux kali 3.8.13-bone26.1 #1 SMP Wed Aug 28 17:48:51 CDT 2013 armv7l GNU/Linu
Currently working the theory that /boot/zImage needs regeneration (ARM Kernel image file); which the apt proccesses above are not doing.
Thoughts?
The BBB image uses a 3.8 kernel. At the time of the 1.0.6 release, the 3.12 kernel still had a few different issues, so it was decided to stick with 3.8.
If you would like to try a newer kernel, you can do the following:
cd ~
mkdir arm-stuff
cd arm-stuff
git clone https://github.com/offensive-security/kali-arm-build-scripts
cd kali-arm-build-scripts
./build-deps.sh
This installs things that are required to cross compile and build a Kali image for ARM machines.
Since you want to try a newer kernel, you'll need to edit the bbb.sh file so
$EDITOR bbb.sh
To determine which kernel you want to try, you'll need to look at what kernels are available based on the tree that we use, which is located at
https://github.com/RobertCNelson/linux-dev
Then you would change line 170 in the bbb.sh script, changing the option to -b to the branch you want to test. So if you wanted to try out the 3.12 kernel, you would change it from am33x-v3.8 to am33x-v3.12
If you don't want it to compress and build sha1sums, then you can go to the bottom of the file, and comment out lines 242-247.
Save the file, and then run
./bbb.sh 1.0.6a
Depending on the speed of your computer and internet connection, this will take a while, so go read up on the beaglebone black, ARM stuff in general, have a coffee, shower, book your flight to blackhat/defcon+hotel, work out, maybe head to sleep.
Once the script is finished, the image will exist in /root/arm-stuff/kali-arm-build-scripts/beaglebone-black-1.0.6a