Grub and Display Driver issues
Hi all,
I am currently trying to get Kali installed on an old Mac Book 2007 A1181 (currently running Ubuntu 16.04 LTS) I have kicking around which is proving a bit painful :)
I have managed to get a working EFI boot into Grub 1.99 but when i try to install (graphical or text), I just get nonsense pixels across the top of the screen - I am putting this down to a possible display driver issue.
If i choose Boot with persistence everything boots up fine, the display works "perfectly". My grub configs for three of these options:
set params 'Kali - Boot Persistence'
set root=(hd0,1)
linux /live/vmlinuz noconfig=sudo username=root hostname=kali persistence
initrd /live/initrd.img
set params 'Kali Graphical Install'
set root=(hd0,1)
linux /install/gtk/vmlinuz video=vesa:ywrap,mtrr vga=788
initrd /install/gtk/initrd.gz
set params 'Kali Text Install'
set root=(hd0,1)
linux /install/vmlinuz video=vesa:ywrap,mtrr vga=788
initrd /install/initrd.gz
It looks like each of these options each use their own separate kernel and setup. I'm not too familiar with tinkering with Grub but I have tried a lot of different video options (and various combinations) to try and get grub to install with no joy.
When I boot into Live Kali (and Ubuntu) it seems to pickup i915 Intel drivers for the on board graphics and works fine.
Is there options I can provide to grub to make the install work?
Is the only real way round this to roll my own Kali ISO image? I am resigned to giving this a go if I have to :)
If you need any more info, let me know.
Thanks,
Logi.
