Evening all Due to my upcoming studies I am going to be using Kali 2.0. I dont mind admitting that when it comes to Linux im a bit of a noob ! However ...... What i want to achieve is a dual boot of W10 x64 and Kali 2.0 x64, with Kali being installed on a spare HDD that i have sitting around at home. Ive done a fair amount of reading and nearly all of the guides and tutorials ive come across give instruxtions on shrinking the existing Windows partition to create free space, then installing Kali there. In all honesty i dont want to go that way, especially as i have a spare drive sitting around. Is it as simple as just installing Kali and grub on the same drive , then just changing boot order at startup to get to the relevant OS ? Is there a better / tidier / more correct method ? Its worth mentioning that my system has a Hybrid BIOS. UEFI / Legacy. Windows 10 installed in EFI mode. Any help will be greatly appreciated
It really is that easy. I would just have one drive connected at a time and install each OS as normal. Then just connect both drives and use your BIOS boot selector to choose which drive to boot from (press F12 or whatever it is for your mobo). I haven't checked but expect you mobo would support booting in legacy/mbr mode so as long as this is enable shouldn't have any problems with Kali and grub. Make sure grub is using UUID for drive selection instead of say /dev/sda1 etc. otherwise Kali won't boot if the drive order changes. I'm not sure about chain loading the Windows 10 boot loader from grub though so you may need to stick with the BIOS boot selector.
Much reading this past weekend ! Trawled through numerous Kali blogs / forum posts. It seems that Kali can be made bootable from USB drive quite simply. Using the latest Rufus tool the drive must be created using DD image in BIOS / CSM legacy mode. Then just a case of install Kali from USB and install rEFInd from within Kali. I'll post my results once I've tried this method.
Another setback ! After doing a search for driver compatibility it seems there is no Linux drive for my embedded NIC. Killer networks e2100. Now Qualcomm Atheros. Now I must buy a new network adapter before even considering Linux. Most frustrating
@alextheg Hi you already try another distro of Linux O.S. who know if you can find some that you can use, well normally myself start with Ubuntu and make install if all works fine I stay with it for some time while search for another; unfortunately Linux O.S. have this issues
Yes, Linux and exotic hardware don't play nice. Thankfully a cheap used Intel or Realtek card will get you up and running. Don't give up.
There is no Linux support for my NIC in any distro . Quite right, I'm looking at Intel pro 1000. Easily obtained for little money...... I'm not giving up. Just a setback but it wll be worth it in the end.
@alextheg yep very sad but in another hand I know you can solve this problem and I like to see you running Linux here I bet in you
Hi everyone! I may be off-topic and linux noob here but I'm interested in learning Kali Linux. I want to achieve a dual boot of W10 x32 and Kali 2018.2 x32, MBR installed on separate partitions on a laptop HDD. My laptop is an old Toshiba Satellite pro, Intel Core2Duo with legacy BIOS. Any good advice?
I have used Kali Linux from USB as a portable OS on my Windows 10 System for quite sometime and one thing I came to understand was in UEFI system you would be better off creating the bootable media with Wind32 Disk Manager for easy bootup. I tried Rufus on DD the USB created booted to a point the screen went blank. I didn't experience that with Win32 Disk Manager yet I have been using Rufus for other OS and it worked so perfectly well.