0007166: Kali no longer supports Raspberry Pi 4

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update

0007166	Kali Linux	General Bug	public	2021-05-01 16:49	2025-07-14 09:37

Reporter	685445793	Assigned To	steev
Priority	normal	Severity	minor	Reproducibility	always
Status	closed	Resolution	no change required
Product Version	2021.1

Summary	0007166: Kali no longer supports Raspberry Pi 4
Description	Hello, After updating (Raspberry Pi OS) > Raspberry Pi 4 Model B which also updates the firmware. will no longer be a functional version of Kali linux for ARM. (this problem will occur with multiple hardware versions of RPI but not tested) I tried to move the files to run (new firmware): https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/releases kali linux starts but does not continue (my knowledge is limited in this)

Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2021-05-01 16:49	685445793	New Issue
2021-06-22 15:21	steev	Assigned To	=> steev
2021-06-22 15:21	steev	Status	new => closed
2021-06-22 15:21	steev	Resolution	open => no change required
2021-06-22 15:21	steev	Note Added: 0014737
2025-07-14 09:16	g0tmi1k	Priority	urgent => normal
2025-07-14 09:37	g0tmi1k	Severity	block => minor

steev 2021-06-22 15:21 reporter ~0014737	If you copied in all of the files from boot, you overwrote the kernel with the raspberry pi kernel. You don't need all of the files, only the .bin, .dat and .elf files from their download.