Kali 2015-07-24

Dual Boot Kali on OS X

Following this guide: http://docs.kali.org/installation/kali-linux-dual-boot-on-mac-hardware

I'm running on a mid-2010 MacBook Pro (Model 7,1).

First things first: download the image, and make a bootable USB.

Bootable USB Drive

Following instructions here:

http://docs.kali.org/downloading/kali-linux-live-usb-install

After downloading the iso, check to make sure it's legit:

$ cat kali-linux-1.1.0a-amd64.txt.sha1sum && openssl sha1 kali-linux-1.1.0a-amd64.iso
2b8d2db20e2709c5e9e0f9f9bbd8606c9b9e729f  kali-linux-1.1.0a-amd64.iso
SHA1(kali-linux-1.1.0a-amd64.iso)= 2b8d2db20e2709c5e9e0f9f9bbd8606c9b9e729f

I ran this command once without the USB drive plugged in, and once with the USB plugged in:

$ diskutil list

I found my disk at /dev/disk2. I unmounted it with

$ diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk2

Then I formatted the USB drive with:

$ sudo dd if=kali-linux-1.1.0a-amd64.iso of=/dev/disk2 bs=1m

And that's all folks, now the USB drive is bootable.