Unetbootin can make your external drive bootable with certain ISOs without formatting the drive - it keeps all the data and adds the MBR to it, along with some unpacked folders and files from the ISO. set opt='findiso=$iso boot=live noconfig=sudo username=root hostname=kali'įinally just enter the command boot and your ISO will be loaded and you will be able to install Kali.īecarefull when your installation is finished, since it will ask to modify your grub, you may want to modify it manually in your ubuntu installation or let the kali install set it in that partition (I'm talking about grub.cfg)Įdit: UUID is better if you use it in your grub.cfg, if you are going to type it (which is the case I'm talking about) it is better to identify the drive and set it root with (hd0,msdos1) as Ruslan Gerasimov stated in his post. You should load the modules you need if your drive have an ext2 partition insmod ext2 and so on. search -fs-uuid YOUR_DRIVE_UUID -set=root To idendify your drive UUID you can check your fstab which will probably be set that way, or just execute blkid which will give you de ids of your devices.

It is easier to boot from a UUID so that you don't have to identify the chain position of the drive/partition you want to boot from. Boot my machine, when grub menu appears I would go to command line grub, and from there start the ISO. If you only want to install it without modifying your grub, I would place the ISO somewhere in the drive.

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