Hey guys,
So real quick, I'm fairly new to Kali and have only tampered with it in a virtual environment thus far. My major does have an area of concentration on Forensic Analysis, so I decided to run a hard disk install of Kali 2018.4 so that I could reap the benefits of my station's hardware, this and I have quite a few classes and certs coming up that will require me to become more intimate with the system. In doing this I went about the following procedure:
-downloaded 2018.4 from official site.
-Created a partition in windows disk management on my 2TB HDD.
-Used dd option on Rufus3 when imaging ISO to USB.
-Ran Graphical Install.
-Manually selected partition previously made, deleted partition to created free space, and allowed Kali to automatically configure that free space for ext4 and swap.
-Setup a network mirror.
-set up grub on same HDD.
-Installation completed and I rebooted the system.
Following this I tried to launch into Kali GUI and this sends me to a never-ending blackscreen. I never reach the grey screen for root login. I am only able to enter recovery mode and execute commands from there. I'm not sure if there is a hardware issue between the system and my GPU or what. Been at this for 2 days now and originally was trying to place Kali on a WD Black M.2 NVMe before to no success. Found out that these particular SSDs have had issues with Linux systems. This is why I switched to the 7200 HDD. I'll post some system info below and some pics of where I'm at so far.
-Intel core i7-8700k 3.7GHZ (coffee lake)
-(2) Corsair 8GB DDR4-300 Vengeance
-Nvidia Geforce GTX 1080 Ti 11GB GDDR5X
-2TB HDD 3.5" SATA III 7200RPM
-Gigabyte Aorus GA-Z370-gaming 5 MOBO
This is pretty much where I am at right now. I tried to provide the best images that I could.
https://image.ibb.co/btNan0/blkid.png
https://image.ibb.co/jRKruf/cpuinfo.png
https://image.ibb.co/dEnVLL/Grub-Commands.png
https://image.ibb.co/iCYRuf/mount.png
https://image.ibb.co/c1ec0L/recovery-mode.png
Any help on this matter would be greatly appreciated! Thanks Guys!