Dual boot Mac OS X and Kali Linux

An EFI boot manager utility

Status: Beta

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Dual boot Mac OS X and Kali Linux

Forum: General Discussion

Creator: Maxime Ozenne

Created: 2016-10-05

Updated: 2016-10-17

Maxime Ozenne - 2016-10-05

Hi,

After many attempts, I managed to get something close to works but I am still getting an error.

First of all, here is my configuration :

The last MacBook Pro (Bought in July 2016)

Apple MacOS Sierra

Kali-Linux 2.0

REFInd and Unetbootin

I tried a lot of things, like burning .iso on an external drive, but all failed.
I decided to partition my internal SSD. I kept 200GO for the MacOS and I took 50GO for Kali-Linux. I formatted this second one as MS-DOS(FAT).

Then I used UnetBootin to burn the Kali-Linux .iso to this second partition. (I could see it on UnetBootin because it is formatted to FAT). Then I restarted my MacBook in recovery mode with cmd+R and i ran a Terminal in order to install rEFInd. It worked.

When I restarted my Mac, I saw the Macintosh HD part and the Kali-Linux part in rEFInd. But when I try to boot on the Linux part, I get the following error :

Starting legacy loader
Using load options 'HD'
Error: Not Found while loading legacy loader
Please make sure that you have the latest update installed

I'm sure that I am close to get it working, but this error seems to say that my MacOS sierra or my Kali-Linux 2.0 aren't supported by rEFInd for the moment...

Did you see something I did wrong ?

Thanks for your attention.

Last edit: Maxime Ozenne 2016-10-05
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Chelo - 2016-10-17

Hey, any updates on this? having the same problem.. Did you fix it?

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