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Thread: Kali 2.0 USB persistent: old howto no more valid

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    [SOLVED] Kali 2.0 USB persistent: old howto still valid?

    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.
    Last edited by ovosodo; 2015-08-15 at 14:56. Reason: Marked SOLVED, the ISO was corrupt

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    Dojo 2 guide has instructions of what you must do but no commands to use for

    Kali 2 documentation should be updated also...

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    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.
    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.
    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 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):
    Any hint?

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    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.
    OS

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