Same problem as issue 0003853, 0003859, 0003860

I was able bypass the error by booting from a live usb and mounting --bind /dev/sda1, /proc, /sys, /dev, /dev/pts, chroot to /dev/sda1 since it is the one that contained my /boot. did apt-get dist-upgrade from 4.8.0 to 4.9.0 release.It was able to boot.

http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/259424/kali-linux-2-0-broken-doesnt-boot worked for me

Due to the age of the OS (Kali Moto [v1], Kali Safi [v2], Kali Rolling 2016.x/2017.1), 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?
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