Also i did not connect ethernet cable when doing this, was that a problem as well?
On Thursday, February 13, 2020 at 8:45:45 AM UTC-6, Daniel Chapa wrote: > > i have a BBB that i bout years ago. i believe its rev c. at that time i > was trying to flash it with debian but could never get it to work. i gave > up put the thing away. got a soul crushing office job and havent looked at > the thing sense. i want a new job/side gig and i figured i could learn > ethical hacking. at this point i thought why don't i trying running kali > linux on the BBB. i put kali linux on an sd card so i could boot it and > that has not been working at all. two of the user leds light up and then > the device just sits there not doing anything. > > My setup up is to connect an hdmi to a monitor, and hub for keyboard and > mouse. im thinking because my bbb still runs Angstrom that i am having an > issue running kali since kali is debian based. i have been trying to flash > debian on to the bbb so that i can try booting kali that way. > > i cant get the device to flash with debian. i have looked at different > videos on youtube describing the proccess and nothing has worked for me. > > i download the image with the gui and use win32 to burn the image. i put > the sd chip in the device holding down the boot button and 3 leds turn on > and the device just sits there, no flashing or knight rider pattern. i saw > some tutorials that say to get into the boot folder and change the unev.txt > file through the device itself and still nothing. can someone give me a > hand in getting this done? or point me to a process that has worked for > them? > > also if you could give me some suggestions as to why kali is not booting > from the sd chip that would be great. > > Please tell me if this is wrong as well: > i want to use the BBB as a stand-alone computer with the latest version of > debian. i want to pulg it into a monitor and have a keyboard and mouse > with a GUI running debian. i can do this with angstrom but cant get the > debian version of linux to flash and get this going. > > i want to be able to insert the sd chip with kali and have it boot. so > that i can continue to learn how to hack. then when im done with that i > want to take the sd chip out and just run regular debian so that i can use > the BBB to work with electronics. > > i know i can use a vm on my computer which is what i am doing now but i > want to do it this way sorry for being hard headed. also i apologize for > this post being all over the place. > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/f6e92fc5-daa7-417e-98b4-c906364853a8%40googlegroups.com.
