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I originally thought Id just build it into a Virtual Machine (using Parallels), but was concerned that I might not have the control over the hardware that Id need in order to make Kali effective as a learning environment.

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Needless to say, I failed miserably when I opted to have Kali install Grub and it overwrote my primary Boot Manager on the Mac and rendered the system unbootable (and eventually unrecoverable).

Everything Im doing has the potential to trash all of the data on your computer, requiring a clean installation of macOS and subsequent data recovery from backups.

I use a combination of Time Machine, CrashPlan, and Arq to back up my system, you should too.

However, several of the steps in that guide I didnt have to use at all, so Im documenting my process here.

There is no way to install an earlier version of Windows using Boot Camp on newer hardware.

See this table to check your hardware and what versions of Windows are supported on it.

This security feature of macOS prevents changes to various areas of the Operating System including System-owned files.

That means that you cannot install rEFInd directly on drives where SIP is enabled.

In order to install rEFInd you will have to boot into Recovery.

Make sure the rEFInd files are available on a drive that macOS can see and use, then follow these instructions.

I used the OSX Standard Theme 1.0 found here.

Upate 20200906: This themes installation instructions ask you to replace the EFI folder in the rEFInd install you just did, it ALSO replaces the more curent version of rEFInd and the cryptographic keys that were provided.

You probably shouldnt do that, though your milage may vary on getting this to work.

At the time of this articles original publication, they were both the same version, but now, 3 years later, the themes version of rEFInd is woefully outdated.

Use with caution or update the components in the theme with the newer versions.

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Just reboot and you should be taken to the rEFInd boot menu, from there you should be able to boot into either macOS or Windows 10.

They probably all wont be bootable, through trial-and-error you should be able to find the correct macOS and Windows 10 volumes.

You can then configure rEFInd to ignore some volumes, but save that for after you have everything working properly.

Once it finishes you should have a bootable USB key for Kali Linux (or whatever).

The reason you had to install rEFInd before installing Linux was that, in my experience, I could not get the standard macOS boot manager to recognize the USB drive I had prepared with Kali Linux.

You can then insert your USB drive, then hit ESC to refresh the volumes and you should see the Linux installation drive appear.

Using rEFInd you can select the appropriate OS and it should boot cleanly on your hardware.

Just follow the instructions and re-install rEFInd again and it should come back and allow you to boot again.

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