I installed Kali on my USB and it worked fine on my Windows PC but when I launch it on my Macbook Pro (using rEFInd) it says "end kernel panic - not syncing vfs unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0 0)"
How do I fix that??
These forums are exclusively for Apple products. You will need to find other support sites for Linux or rEFInd.
Taking my chance anyway..
Is Kali installed using EFI Boot? What is the year/model of your Mac?
How can I know that?
And it's MacBook Pro Early 2011 13"
OS X Yosemite
Do you have a link that you used to install Linux on your USB?
http://docs.kali.org/installation/kali-linux-dual-boot-on-mac-hardware
I used the dd command
From your link, the default is EFI, but 2011 Macs do not support EFI Boot.
Devices older than ‘late 2012‘, may require a blank DVD. USB booting may not work without rEFInd pre-installed.
Look at steps 7 and 8. Your partitioning seems to be incorrect.
But I am using rEFInd
rEFInd does not manage partitions. You partition in steps 4 and 5. The error message indicates that the root file system is unmountable on disk0. If this is coming from the USB you built, it is a Linux Installer, with a Live component in it. The USB may have an issue, because disk0 on the Mac is the internal disk. For example look at step 13. I suggest that you follow the steps exactly and literally till the end and then report any issues.
I did these steps exactly especially 4 and 5 and got pretty much the same output, for step 13 I haven't done it yet because you do it in Kali but I can't load it.
From OS X Terminal, post the output of
diskutil list
sudo gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk0
sudo fdisk /dev/disk0
Please enter your password when prompted by the 'sudo' commands.
/dev/disk0
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: FDisk_partition_scheme *32.0 GB disk0
1: 0x17 3.0 GB disk0s1
2: DOS_FAT_12 NO NAME 110.1 MB disk0s2
/dev/disk1
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *320.1 GB disk1
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk1s1
2: Apple_CoreStorage 297.0 GB disk1s2
3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk1s3
/dev/disk2
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD *296.7 GB disk2
Logical Volume on disk1s2
7B9DD9D3-DE78-4C29-B1D7-64D7552D40FE
Unencrypted
gpt show: /dev/disk0: mediasize=32010928128; sectorsize=512; blocks=62521344
gpt show: /dev/disk0: MBR at sector 0
gpt show: /dev/disk0: Sec GPT at sector 62521343
start size index contents
0 1 MBR
1 63
64 5794208 1 MBR part 23
5794272 215040 2 MBR part 1
6009312 56511999
62521311 32 Sec GPT table
62521343 1 Sec GPT header
Disk: /dev/disk0 geometry: 3891/255/63 [62521344 sectors]
Signature: 0xAA55
Starting Ending
#: id cyl hd sec - cyl hd sec [ start - size]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
*1: 17 0 2 1 - 1022 176 32 [ 64 - 5794208] OS/2 hidden
2: 01 1023 0 1 - 1023 176 32 [ 5794272 - 215040] DOS FAT-12
3: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0 - 0] unused
4: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0 - 0] unused
Your disk0 is incorrect. It needs to be a GPT with the first partition being an EFI partition, as your disk1 shows. You need to ask the Kali folks or erase/format this USB as GPT using OS X Disk Utility and then download the Kali installer. Using a PC has made it a MBR disk and there are boot ability issues on 2011 Macs with external MBR USBs.
So what I basically need to do is to install Kali Linux on my USB with Linux installer on Windows?
No. Connect this USB to a Mac. In DU, erase and format it as a GPT disk and create a GPT partition.
Did you use the steps in http://docs.kali.org/downloading/kali-linux-live-usb-install ?
Using Kali Linux via bootable USB
