Pinebook Pro Build Script Issues

[jwhall]

I recently got Kali to boot on my PBP using a 'vanilla' Debian 10 AMD64 VM that I built on an iMac. Below is my workflow and the script I wrote to automate it…

Disclaimer:
Below is how *I* did it. It may not be how *you* do it, but is *a* way that worked for me.

 Prep Work;
   Install VirtualBox
       Create New VM - General Specs;
               Name: Debian
               Type: Linux
               Version: Debian (64-bit)
           System Specs:
               vRAM: 8192MB vRAM
               vCPU: 4
           Storage Specs:   
               vDisk: 80GB Dynamically allocated .vdi 
   Download Debian 10.2 AMD64 NetInstall ISO from https://www.debian.org/distrib/netinst
   Attach Debian 10.2 AMD64 NetInstall ISO to configured VM, boot…
   Install Debian in VM;
       During software selection I unselected;
           - Debian desktop environment
           - print server
       selected;
           + SSH server
           + standard system utilities
   Once install is complete, Reboot…
 Log into new VM as root and copy kali_build_on_debian.sh to the root user's home directory
 Run the kali_build_on_debian.sh script
       There will be some interaction on packages and build, select defaults
 Once completed, copy .img.xz file from the ~/arm-stuff/kali-arm/ dir to a system with balenaEtcher installed. I used my iMac.
 Burn .img.xz file to an SD card # My resulting image was titled kali-linux-2020.1-pinebook-pro.img.xz
 Insert SD card into Pinebook Pro and boot!

Build script…

Code:

#!/bin/sh # # kali_build_on_debian.sh # ############################################################################## # This code known is distributed under the following terms: # # Copyright (c) 2013 Isaac (.ike) Levy <ike@blackskyresearch.net>. # All rights reserved. # # Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without # modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions # are met: # 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright #    notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. # 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright #    notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the #    documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. # # THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND # ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE # IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE # ARE DISCLAIMED.  IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE # FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL # DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS # OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) # HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT # LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY # OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF # SUCH DAMAGE. ######################################################################### # Credits: # William Baxter (safe/try pattern originator) # Matthew Story (loads of use) # okan@ (try refinements, config conventions) # Allan Jude (try - the actual name) ######################################################################### shout() { echo "$0: $*" >&2; } die() { shout "$*"; exit 111; } try() { "$@" || die "cannot $*"; } try echo "Updating repos to Kali linux and installing Kali Full…" # Found the following steps on building Kali on Debian vanilla at # https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=8838&pid=58539#pid58539 # Thanks to Tazdevl # Adapted to use try/die/shout try apt update try apt install -y wget gnupg git try wget -q -O - https://archive.kali.org/archive-key.asc | gpg --import try gpg --keyserver hkp://keys.gnupg.net --recv-key 44C6513A8E4FB3D30875F758ED444FF07D8D0BF6 try echo "deb http://http.kali.org/kali kali-rolling main non-free contrib" > /etc/apt/sources.list try gpg -a --export ED444FF07D8D0BF6 | apt-key add - try apt update try apt -y upgrade try apt -y dist-upgrade try apt -y autoremove --purge try apt -y install kali-linux-full # From https://gitlab.com/kalilinux/build-scripts/kali-arm try mkdir ~/arm-stuff try cd ~/arm-stuff try git clone https://gitlab.com/kalilinux/build-scripts/kali-arm try cd ~/arm-stuff/kali-arm try ./build-deps.sh # Modified for Pinebook-Pro. Use the current rolling release in place # of the 2020.1 label try ./pinebook-pro.sh 2020.1 # That should be it! try echo "Built complete!" true # alternatively, exit 0

This worked great for me. Note you'll need to dos2unix the build script if you copy from this forum. Otherwise I had no real issues. Thank you for the hard work!