We’ve booted from a pre-made Kali VM and a Kali USB drive. Now, we’ll boot another way. Boot a VM from the Kali ISO. Make sure the network is in NAT mode.
Edit the live boot option and add the “quiet” option on the kernel line for a less-verbose boot up.
Confirm this makes a difference in the boot verbosity.
Check out the boot parameters for live and forensics mode. What are the differences?
In order to boot from an ISO, connect the Kali ISO to a virtual CD drive before booting. In VMWare, this is in Virtual Machine > Settings > CD/DVD (IDE). Check the box to enable CD, and select the disk image. To enable NAT mode: In VMWare > Virtual Machine > Network Adapter
At the boot menu, choose live boot, press e and add quiet to the linux line:Boot with CTRL-X for F10.
Did it?
The differences are in the noswap and noautomount boot parameters which exist in the forensics mode option. While noswap is a standard Debian boot parameter, the noautomaount is a Kali specific feature, implemented by the /etc/X11/Xsession.d/52kali_noautomount file, shipped in the kali-defaults package.
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