Rapsberry Pi 2 will not boot with Kali Linux v1.1.0.

My RapsBerry Pi 2 B boots Ubuntu 14.04LTS fine in a 32GB SD HC Card, but it does not boot at all (nothing on screen) when trying with Kali Linux v1.1.0

I tried transferring the .img file from Linux by doing:

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# dd if=kali-1.1.0-rpi2.img of=/dev/sdb bs=512k

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and from Windows by using Win32DiskImager.
This is the result:

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luis@Chomsky:~$ sudo fdisk -l
Disco /dev/sdb: 61.9 GB, 61924704256 bytes
64 cabezas, 32 sectores/pista, 59056 cilindros, 120946688 sectores en total
Unidades = sectores de 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Tamaño de sector (lógico / fÃ*sico): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Tamaño E/S (mÃ*nimo/óptimo): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Identificador del disco: 0x9b40c48c
El disco /dev/sdb no contiene una tabla de particiones válida

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My Linux is in spanish, sorry, but the last line translates to: "/dev/sdb has no valid partition table".
I have tested this with a 8GB SD Card, and a 64GB SD XC Card, but results are the same (no image at all).
I have tried by firstly creating some valid ms-dos type partition table by using gparted, but it seems to be removed after the dd process.

What is going on here, and what could I check to solve this?

Thanks you.

I don't have Kali on my pi but I thought I'd ask,

Have you made sure the image you have downloaded has the correct sha1sum?

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Originally Posted by staticn0de

I don't have Kali on my pi but I thought I'd ask

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Thanks you.
It is hard to believe that the .img file available at a so widely used distro like Kali Linux could be damaged, so the problem should be another one.

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Originally Posted by staticn0de

Have you made sure the image you have downloaded has the correct sha1sum?

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Indeed, this is my obtained (by Total Commander checksum SHA1 generator):

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485ea11cdaf9b0f89c798548ba4d9a64bc196129 *kali-1.1.0-rpi2.img

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Maybe it could be worth to try any other RapsBerry image, like "Raspberry Pi A/B+" or "Raspberry Pi A/B+ TFT"? Of course I would prefer the RapsBerry Pi 2 .img.

This sounds like you might of had dropout on the usb bus of your computer try a different usb port and maybe a different computer

Finally solved: Firefox had (who knows why?) downloaded:

http://images.offensive-security.com....0-rpi2.img.xz

as a file named:

kali-1.1.0-rpi2.img

Note the missing ".xz" part.
I have detected it with:

file kali-1.1.0-rpi2.img

I saw the output info as not the appropriate for a image file.

Thanks you anyway, staticn0de (the SUM, indeed, was correct ;-) ).