sra776
2013-04-29, 03:21
Kali Version
1.02
Architecture
amd64
Hardware
8,2 Macbook pro
Notable Software
refit
Problem:
Hello everybody, I attempting to make a bootable live Kali USB drive for my Mac. I am aware that Apples Proprietary version of EFI makes any attempts to boot anything essentially a living ****. First I tried using DD from the terminal in OSX. The files were successfully copied over but my machine could not recognize nor boot from the device. I then reformatted the flash drive and attempted to use unetbootin, this also did not yield a bootable drive. Refit did show a USB device with linux but simply hangs when I select it. Next, I tried the instructions from this site http://forums.kali.org/showthread.php?271-How-to-EFI-install-Kali-Linux. When I simply used the bootx64.efi file in addition to my grub.cfg (I used his provided code) I received an image not found error very similar to this:
rEFInd - Booting OS
Starting bootx64.efi
Using load options ' '
Failed to open \EFI\BOOT\grubx64.efi - B00000000000000E
Failed to load image
Failed to open \EFI\BOOT\MokManager.efi - B00000000000000E
Failed to load image
Error: Not Found returned from bootx64.efi
* Hit any key to continue *
Accepting this would just throw me back to the Refit screen. Following this attempt I added Mokmanager.efi and grubx64.efi to the /EFI/Boot/ folder as well. Now when I selected the bootx64.efi option in refit I would be taken to a grub shell and I am not familiar with navigating one of those so that held me up, selecting grubx64.efi would also drop me into a grub shell and Mokmanager would simply present me three options (I apologize but I do not remember them) and all three simply returned me to the refit screen. This entire time Refit also showed a linux device on USB but would hang if that was selected. Lastly, if it matters once I added bootx64.efi and Mokmanager.efi if I held in the option key the Mac bootloader would show a EFI device but would simply drop me to a grub shell if I selected it. Sorry if this is overly wordy, I appreciate any help that can be provided and together I hope maybe we can find a solution so that those of us foolish enough to by macs (like myself) can still enjoy this very useful OS.
1.02
Architecture
amd64
Hardware
8,2 Macbook pro
Notable Software
refit
Problem:
Hello everybody, I attempting to make a bootable live Kali USB drive for my Mac. I am aware that Apples Proprietary version of EFI makes any attempts to boot anything essentially a living ****. First I tried using DD from the terminal in OSX. The files were successfully copied over but my machine could not recognize nor boot from the device. I then reformatted the flash drive and attempted to use unetbootin, this also did not yield a bootable drive. Refit did show a USB device with linux but simply hangs when I select it. Next, I tried the instructions from this site http://forums.kali.org/showthread.php?271-How-to-EFI-install-Kali-Linux. When I simply used the bootx64.efi file in addition to my grub.cfg (I used his provided code) I received an image not found error very similar to this:
rEFInd - Booting OS
Starting bootx64.efi
Using load options ' '
Failed to open \EFI\BOOT\grubx64.efi - B00000000000000E
Failed to load image
Failed to open \EFI\BOOT\MokManager.efi - B00000000000000E
Failed to load image
Error: Not Found returned from bootx64.efi
* Hit any key to continue *
Accepting this would just throw me back to the Refit screen. Following this attempt I added Mokmanager.efi and grubx64.efi to the /EFI/Boot/ folder as well. Now when I selected the bootx64.efi option in refit I would be taken to a grub shell and I am not familiar with navigating one of those so that held me up, selecting grubx64.efi would also drop me into a grub shell and Mokmanager would simply present me three options (I apologize but I do not remember them) and all three simply returned me to the refit screen. This entire time Refit also showed a linux device on USB but would hang if that was selected. Lastly, if it matters once I added bootx64.efi and Mokmanager.efi if I held in the option key the Mac bootloader would show a EFI device but would simply drop me to a grub shell if I selected it. Sorry if this is overly wordy, I appreciate any help that can be provided and together I hope maybe we can find a solution so that those of us foolish enough to by macs (like myself) can still enjoy this very useful OS.