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IDProjectCategoryView StatusDate SubmittedLast Update
0002305Kali LinuxGeneral Bugpublic2015-05-30 19:232018-01-29 11:53
ReporterStrangelove Assigned Tog0tmi1k  
PrioritynormalSeveritymajorReproducibilityalways
Status closedResolutionsuspended 
Product Version1.1.0 
Summary0002305: All types of problems on EFI systems
Description

I made a USB stick with Win32DiskImager of a validated ISO downloaded directly from kali.org. First off, the live system has all sorts of problems, mainly it hangs after a while. Sometimes it works pretty well, but mostly it hangs after a while.

So I started installing Kali and didn't have the slightest problem doing so. The problem is, after I've booted into Kali, all I got was a blank screen. Couldn't access tty1 with Ctrl+Alt+F1 neither. I tried to chroot from the Live stick into the installed system and perform apt-get upgrade, but didn't create any results.

I tried to reinstall and make a second EFI partition and had hoped this would resolve the problem, but didn't help. I also tried 1.1.0 and 1.0.9a, but the same problems with those.

I can't tell if it's a general problem with EFI systems or if it's just a problem with my chipset. However, others have reported the same problem.

Here's a thread in the Kali Linux forums about what I've tried:
https://forums.kali.org/showthread.php?25587-Booting-Kali-results-in-black-screen-after-fresh-install

Here's another thread reporting the same problem:
https://forums.kali.org/showthread.php?24894-Live-USB-with-EFI-not-working-(Kali-1-1-0a)

Steps To Reproduce

Downloaded Kali 1.1.0a ISO from the official page.
Verified the download, hash was correct.
Used Win32DiskImager to create the USB disk.
USB disk doesn't boot all the time, sometimes hangs mid-booting, sometimes boots fully, but hangs after Kali Live runs a while.
Installed Kali to the SSD, two partitions for / and a SWAP, also used the already installed EFI partition.
Start up Kali. After choosing Kali from the Grub menu, just a blank screen. No error messages, nothing. Ctrl+Alt+Delete works, though.
Kali Recovery mode doesn't work, neither.
Going into console mode in Grub and entering ls (hd0,gpt3)/ lists up all files, so it seems to have been installed.

Additional Information

My laptop:
MSI GE70
Samsung 850 Evo
i7
8GB RAM
Dualbooting with Win 8.1
Had Arch Linux and openSUSE installed previously. Both worked like a charm.

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g0tmi1k

g0tmi1k

2018-01-29 11:53

administrator   ~0008084

Due to the age of the OS (Kali Moto [v1], Kali Safi [v2], Kali Rolling 2016.x), these legacy versions are no longer supported.
We will be closing this ticket due to inactivity.

Please could you see if you are able to replicate this issue with the latest version of Kali Linux - https://www.kali.org/downloads/)?

If you are still facing the same problem, feel free to re-open the ticket. If you choose to do this, could you provide more information to the issue you are facing,and also give information about your setup?
For more information, please read: https://kali.training/topic/filing-a-good-bug-report/

Issue History

Date Modified Username Field Change
2015-05-30 19:23 Strangelove New Issue
2015-08-18 12:37 g0tmi1k Priority immediate => normal
2018-01-29 11:53 g0tmi1k Assigned To => g0tmi1k
2018-01-29 11:53 g0tmi1k Status new => closed
2018-01-29 11:53 g0tmi1k Resolution open => suspended
2018-01-29 11:53 g0tmi1k Note Added: 0008084