Kali Linux Installed but won't Boot after choosing Kali from the Distro's Home menu in VM

[R_Stav]

Hello, as the title suggest after I install Kali Linux and finish the install successfully when I reboot and select it from the initial Kali Screen to boot it loads and stays on a black screen (no shell) Is there a workaround for it to boot correctly. (Yes I know it is Debian Based).

Any help if there is a workaround please let me know

 

[dlavigne]

FreeNAS version? Hardware specs? Anything in /var/log/messages when it fails to load?

 

[R_Stav]

@dlavigne
Freenas Version 11.2-U2 the latest release
Hardware Specs:

CPU: i3-8100
Mobo: Asus Prime mATX B360M-A
RAM: Kingston HyperX 16 GB (8x2) 2666
PSU: 400W EVGA

As for logs I have none in Logs that I can tell

 

[dlavigne]

Were you able to resolve this?

 

[R_Stav]

@dlavigne I was not. Kali Will not boot at all still. Still waiting to see if anyone might have a solution

 

[samuel-emrys]

@dlavigne I was not. Kali Will not boot at all still. Still waiting to see if anyone might have a solution

Sorry this doesn't help answer your question, but I'm curious, what's the purpose of running Kali in a VM on your server? I would have thought you would want access to the devices wifi/bluetooth/external devices, so a laptop would be ideal.. What's your use case?

 

[sretalla]

Are you able to type at that prompt?

 

[R_Stav]

@samuel-emrys the use case for me is that i'm not currently using it for external devices just simple playing around with the new release of KAli and Ghidra for a bit.

@sretalla I am not

 

[sretalla]

Using the menu bar of NoVNC to send CTRL ALT DEL?

 

[R_Stav]

@sretalla I'm doing that. Yes

 

[sretalla]

I'm doing that. Yes

To no avail? or do you see the machine going through the boot/POST process?

 

[R_Stav]

It will reboot as standard Linux does but will just go back to the first screen I posted I'm using the new 2019a Kali iso

 

[sretalla]

Which version? KDE, Xfce, Light, 32/64 bit?

 

[R_Stav]

64 version

 

[sretalla]

OK, so I'm trying to get to the same place as you are.. (on FreeNAS 12.2-U3) using https://cdimage.kali.org/kali-2019.1a/kali-linux-2019.1a-amd64.iso

Will update in a few minutes. Maybe a bit longer... Wow, that Copying files to disk is really slow.

 

[R_Stav]

Thank you

 

[sretalla]

So, I can reproduce the problem.

I can also intervene and select advanced boot and recovery mode to get a prompt and look at logs, which highlights 2 things that may be part of the problem:

1. Real time clock isn't responding
2. /bin/plymouth can't be found (which is the last logged error)

I'll have a look later and see if some of the advice on that gives me a direction to go in.

 

[R_Stav]

@sretalla I'm glad im not the only one to have been able to have the issue. If you come across any fix/workaround please let me know and thank you for taking time to look into the issue

 

[sretalla]

I also note that instead of installing, just taking the live boot option also produces the same result directly from the ISO, so something isn't OK there in general. I'll share any findings... maybe will try another of their ISO options and see if I get a better result.

 

[R_Stav]

I also note that instead of installing, just taking the live boot option also produces the same result directly from the ISO, so something isn't OK there in general. I'll share any findings... maybe will try another of their ISO options and see if I get a better result.

I was going to add that if you hadnt said that. About the live install


I know its on a kernel greater than 4.15 but i browsed the forum and it was fixed awhile ago for that bug so i found this one odd