Exercise 03, Chapter 2 – Editing Boot parameters
- 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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