Hey,
I'm desperately trying to get Kali Linux 1.1.0a (AMD64) up and running on a Macbook via SD Card and rEFInd. No luck so far.
After a week of following one guide after the other, always resulting in new and even fancier errors, i hope someone in here can finally help me.
After dd-ing the img onto a USB thump i managed to live boot it, partition the SD card as required and install the system on it. All went well until I hit the Bootloader GRUB2 installation process. When im using the defaults - install onto MBR /dev/sda - it throws an fatal error. Now I installed it on the /dev/sdc (the SD Card) witch might not have been too wise, but it went trough. Now I can see the Linux System in the EFI Boot Menu, but when I choose it, no booting is initialized. Just the loved underscore blinking alone and for ever.
Is there any way to repair the bootloader or do i have to start over? And if I have to start over, where should the GRUB installation go?
My Environment:
- MacBookPro5,3 (Intel Core 2 Duo - upgraded to 8GB RAM and SSD)
- OS X Yosemite (10.10.2)
- rEFInd 0.8.7 installed
- using Kali Linux 1.1.0a (AMD64)
Code:
$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *250.1 GB disk0
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_HFS Mac SSD 249.2 GB disk0s2
3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk0s3
/dev/disk1
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *15.9 GB disk1
1: Bios Boot Partition 1.0 MB disk1s1
2: Microsoft Basic Data 15.2 GB disk1s2
3: Linux Swap 699.4 MB disk1s3
If you need any further information, just let me know! I appreciate every help i can get :)
Thanks
Ron