Hi,
I have lost too much hair to date and am not looking to lose any more. This dual boot installation of kali-linux-1.1.0a-amd64 has had its pound of stress out of me. I am mad as **** and I'm not gonna take this any more!
I finally managed to install using the text installer, eventually side stepping the installer failed at the installer part, and the grub failed to install.
My original partition table was setup something like below.
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/dev/sda
/Windows
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/dev/sdc <--- External USB
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/EFI <--- 250MB
/ <--- 25GB
/usr <--- 50GB
/tmp <--- 50GB
/var <--- 50GB
/swap <--- 16GB
/home <--- 100GB
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The install succeeded and there was a new boot option for kali in UEFI but it would only boot into windows. I changed a few settings in BIOS but nothing helped. So back to the drawing board...
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/dev/sdc <--- External USB
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/boot <--- 250MB
/ <--- 25GB
/usr <--- 50GB
/tmp <--- 50GB
/var <--- 50GB
/swap <--- 16GB
/home <--- 100GB
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Windows boot manager had been edited with an entry for Kali but when selected I was dropped at a grub> prompt and grub 0.4.5 was mentioned. I was in over my head here as I expected grub2 or 1.99 at least and during the installation, update of grub2 was mentioned.
I have also tried going with the beginner option of whacking everything in one partition, with swap, thinking "I just want this to work!" but still got 0.4.5
Any tips?
