Issues with grub upon Kali install?

[Ibnspud]

Hey all, so I used an external hard drive to instal Kali onto an SSD after shrinking down the Windows 10 partition that was already there. Since it was my first time I followed a few guides online and went with putting the grub loader on the SSD when prompted, and had the graphics installer put most everything in one partition. However, when I try to do a grub update in Kali, it returns an error when I get to the grub-install /dev/sda command, returning a string of "device node not found"s after a "/proc/devices: fopen failed: No such file or directory". I did this to the partition marked "/" in gparted. Does anyone know how to fix this?

[_defalt]

Can you show the list of commands you were enetering?
Did you use these commands?

1.mount /dev/sda* /mnt
2.mount --bind /dev /mnt/dev
3.mount --bind /dev/pts /mnt/dev/pts
4.mount --bind /proc /mnt/proc
5.mount --bind /sys /mnt/sys
6.chroot /mnt
7.grub-install /dev/sda
8.update-grub
9.exit
10.umount /mnt/dev/pts
11.umount /mnt/dev
12.umount /mnt/proc
13.umount /mnt/sys
14.umount /mnt

sda*=assigned number to the root partition

[Ibnspud]

Can you show the list of commands you were enetering?
Did you use these commands?


sda*=assigned number to the root partition

yes, I used those exact commands with sda5, they all worked through chroot /mnt. once I tried the grub-install, that was when it returned the /proc/devices fopen error, then a long string of 'device node not found'

[_defalt]

I knew it 7th command would show the error. Can you show the output of fdisk -l?
fdisk -l shows the list of partitions. There is one EFI partition in that list. Check its corresponding name. It should be /dev/sda1.

Replace that name in the 1st command so it becomes mount /dev/sda1 /mnt.

[y.kashyap007]

hey everyone, i have Acer Aspire E 15 laptop. I tried to install kali linux by a bootable pendrive, but it boots into legacy mode. And i somehow changed it configuration so that it can boot into UEFI mode as well. But in both the modes whenever i try to install kali, after the partition step, during grub installation i get stuked into DEBOOTSTRAP error..if somebody knows how to solve it,i would really appreciate the help.

[_defalt]

hey everyone, i have Acer Aspire E 15 laptop. I tried to install kali linux by a bootable pendrive, but it boots into legacy mode. And i somehow changed it configuration so that it can boot into UEFI mode as well. But in both the modes whenever i try to install kali, after the partition step, during grub installation i get stuked into DEBOOTSTRAP error..if somebody knows how to solve it,i would really appreciate the help.

Keep leagcy BIOS disabled and add bootable files in your USB. Then UEFI will recognize your USB. What options do you choose in partition steps?

[djpoo]

hi i hope its okay i use ur post for my problem.
i have same problem but alittle bit diffrent
i install kali linux and hed problem to install grub while installing from usb
i start the live and run all the terminal commands as it should
but always i'm getting
bash: grub-install: command not found

now i always hed kali on my other laptop with win10
and works fine but laptop is dead not and i but temp laptop for now and wanted to make kali linux as main.
and got this problems.

hope u guys will able to help i search alot online not even 1 guide online helps me.

[_defalt]

Can you show the output of fdisk -l?

[djpoo]

Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/sda1 2048 242798591 242796544 115.8G 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 242800638 250068991 7268354 3.5G 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 242800640 250068991 7268352 3.5G 82 Linux swap / Solaris

[_defalt]

Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/sda1 2048 242798591 242796544 115.8G 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 242800638 250068991 7268354 3.5G 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 242800640 250068991 7268352 3.5G 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Where is your EFI partition? There is no windows 10 partition either. It looks like a single boot. In Single boot Grub is automatically installed but you have to make sure that bootable flag is ON while choosing the disk to install kali else grub is not installed.