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Hi all, I'm trying to setup a persistent USB with Kali 2.0, but http://docs.kali.org/downloading/kal...sb-persistence and http://docs.kali.org/kali-dojo/03-ka...nce-encryption does't seem usable anymore.
The USB dongle with kali v2 installed by "dd if=... of=/dev/sdb bs=512" boots regularly, but parted and gparted show this error: "Invalid partition table - recursive partition on /dev/sdb."
No partition table, thus no partitions. The while USB dongle seems "unallocated".
Any hint?
Thanks.
Try following the Dojo 2 guide:
+ https://www.kali.org/dojo/workshop-02.pdf
The older links are:
+ http://docs.kali.org/downloading/kal...sb-persistence
+ https://www.offensive-security.com/k...istent-stores/
Dojo 2 guide has instructions of what you must do but no commands to use for :(
Kali 2 documentation should be updated also...
The Dojo 2 guide is very nice, but doesn't solve the issue: by copying the iso to the pendrive, the partition table isn't valid, there isn't "unallocated" space where allocate the persistence partition.
fdisk doesn't directly show any partition table error, but goes crazy with the size of the added primary partition 1.8 TB:Code:$ sudo dd if=kali-linux-2.0-amd64.iso of=/dev/sdb bs=16M
197+1 records in
197+1 records out
3320840192 bytes (3.3 GB) copied, 167.98 s, 19.8 MB/s
$ sudo parted -l /dev/sdb
Model: ATA WDC WD10JPVT-24A (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 1000GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B
Partition Table: msdos
Disk Flags:
Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 1049kB 983GB 983GB primary ext4 boot
2 983GB 1000GB 16.9GB extended
5 983GB 1000GB 16.9GB logical linux-swap(v1)
Error: Invalid partition table - recursive partition on /dev/sdb.
Any hint?Code:$ sudo fdisk /dev/sdb
Welcome to fdisk (util-linux 2.25.2).
Changes will remain in memory only, until you decide to write them.
Be careful before using the write command.
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/sdb: 1.8 TiB, 2000396746752 bytes, 3907024896 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x0a9a1b1a
Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/sdb1 * 0 6486015 6486016 3.1G 17 Hidden HPFS/NTFS
Command (m for help): n
Partition type
p primary (1 primary, 0 extended, 3 free)
e extended (container for logical partitions)
Select (default p): p
Partition number (2-4, default 2):
First sector (6486016-3907024895, default 6486016):
Last sector, +sectors or +size{K,M,G,T,P} (6486016-3907024895, default 3907024895):
Created a new partition 2 of type 'Linux' and of size 1.8 TiB.
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/sdb: 1.8 TiB, 2000396746752 bytes, 3907024896 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x0a9a1b1a
Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/sdb1 * 0 6486015 6486016 3.1G 17 Hidden HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdb2 6486016 3907024895 3900538880 1.8T 83 Linux
Command (m for help):
The commands are here: https://www.kali.org/dojo/workshop-02.txt
Solved.
The ISO was corrupt, its sha1 hash was wrong even though qbittorrent checks did not signal any torrent hash discrepancy.
Mainly only the partition table was corrupt, i downloaded through the official .torrent
I wrongly trusted the qbittorrent client hash checks.
Lesson learned: be paranoid and check the hash, and possibly the signature, of any downloaded critical file.
Thanks to g0tmi1k and 0120 for the useful hints.
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