Install Kali Linux 2.0 (Sana) in UEFI Mode (Dual Boot Windows 8/8.1/10)

[nehaljwani]

Thank you very much !! I know it sounds strange, but is it also possible to change the background picture of the kali menu? I dont like it because you barely can read the options.

Please go through http://www.blackmoreops.com/2015/11/...-in-kali-linux and https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2/Displays

[iqbalhapid]

hey bro, thanks it work at the first after reboot on kali. but when i turn on my laptop (after shutdown on windows) the grub just disappear (not showing) and automatically starting windows . can you tell me why? thx. sory for my bad english

[nehaljwani]

hey bro, thanks it work at the first after reboot on kali. but when i turn on my laptop (after shutdown on windows) the grub just disappear (not showing) and automatically starting windows . can you tell me why? thx. sory for my bad english

What is your computer make / model? There might be a function key which you need to press to get to the boot options. There you will might see Kali as a boot option. Somehow the reboot cleared the UEFI NVRAM variables, or changed the boot order.

[Hesus]

Big thanks for creating this guide, with it i finally got the dual boot working.

[Towlieee]

I'm making the assumption that this will also work with windows 7 in UEFI mode? Want to try it out, spent a lot of time before trying to get grub to load kali along side win 7 in UEFI in the past, never got it to boot kali unfortunately.

[node]

In Kali rolling 2016.1, is there an option to install without loading the Grub2?

Also I have Wins and Kali rolling 2016.1 dual booting fine; will like to know how to get uBuntu 15.10 to show up as a selection from the Kali boot screen for a triple boot system.

I installed ubuntu without installing grub2 bootloader.

[node]

In Kali rolling 2016.1, is there an option to install without loading the Grub2?

Also I have Wins and Kali rolling 2016.1 dual booting fine; will like to know how to get uBuntu 15.10 to show up as a selection from the Kali boot screen for a triple boot system.

I installed ubuntu without installing grub2 bootloader.

Solved case closed Mod

[mulot]

I'm very confused since I already installed Kali 2016 before seeing this post and I already installed GRUB bootloader while in Legacy mode. Now in legacy, only Kali is detected in grub, no Windows 10 but in UEFI, it immediately booted to Win10, no Kali or GRUB. What should I do?

Solved with this thread, https://forums.kali.org/showthread.p...x-in-UEFI-Mode
Thanks, OP.

[sri1497vatsa]

I had the same problem.. so had to get into Kali Linux through some other way and rEFInd proved great.. I have compiled the steps in my blog.. anyone interested can look it up here metechex.blogspot.in
It's working pretty fine .. cheers

[Hesus]

Hi,

I am stuck on step 15 i created the grub config file but when i try to command grub-install /dev/sda it give me the following

installing for x86_64-efi platform .
could not prepare Boot variable: Permission denied
Installation finished . No error reported .

anyway to lift the permission needed for the boot variable to be added?

[nehaljwani]

Hi,

I am stuck on step 15 i created the grub config file but when i try to command grub-install /dev/sda it give me the following

installing for x86_64-efi platform .
could not prepare Boot variable: Permission denied
Installation finished . No error reported .

anyway to lift the permission needed for the boot variable to be added?

It happens on certain machines that the EFI boot variables can't be fiddled around with inside chroot. The workaround for this is to exit out of the chroot and then create the boot entry manually:

efibootmgr -c -d /dev/sda -p X -l /EFI/kali/grubx64.efi -L "Kali Linux"

Make sure that you replace 'X' in the above command with the partition number of the EFI partition, which you had mounted at /mnt/boot/efi.

[Hesus]

Thanks for the quick respond.

This was the answer i needed. Kali is working in dual boot like a charm.

[Aziks]

I get this:

root@sysresccd:/# apt-get update
Hit:1 http://ftp.free.fr/pub/kali sana InRelease
Reading package lists... Done
W: Target Packages (main/binary-amd64/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:6 and /etc/apt/sources.list:7
W: Target Packages (main/binary-all/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:6 and /etc/apt/sources.list:7
W: Target Translations (main/i18n/Translation-en_US) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:6 and /etc/apt/sources.list:7
W: Target Translations (main/i18n/Translation-en) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:6 and /etc/apt/sources.list:7
W: Target Packages (non-free/binary-amd64/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:6 and /etc/apt/sources.list:7
W: Target Packages (non-free/binary-all/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:6 and /etc/apt/sources.list:7
W: Target Translations (non-free/i18n/Translation-en_US) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:6 and /etc/apt/sources.list:7
W: Target Translations (non-free/i18n/Translation-en) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:6 and /etc/apt/sources.list:7
W: Target Packages (contrib/binary-amd64/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:6 and /etc/apt/sources.list:7
W: Target Packages (contrib/binary-all/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:6 and /etc/apt/sources.list:7
W: Target Translations (contrib/i18n/Translation-en_US) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:6 and /etc/apt/sources.list:7
W: Target Translations (contrib/i18n/Translation-en) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:6 and /etc/apt/sources.list:7
W: Target Packages (main/binary-amd64/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:6 and /etc/apt/sources.list:8
W: Target Packages (main/binary-all/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:6 and /etc/apt/sources.list:8
W: Target Translations (main/i18n/Translation-en_US) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:6 and /etc/apt/sources.list:8
W: Target Translations (main/i18n/Translation-en) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:6 and /etc/apt/sources.list:8
W: Target Packages (non-free/binary-amd64/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:6 and /etc/apt/sources.list:8
W: Target Packages (non-free/binary-all/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:6 and /etc/apt/sources.list:8
W: Target Translations (non-free/i18n/Translation-en_US) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:6 and /etc/apt/sources.list:8
W: Target Translations (non-free/i18n/Translation-en) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:6 and /etc/apt/sources.list:8
W: Target Packages (contrib/binary-amd64/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:6 and /etc/apt/sources.list:8
W: Target Packages (contrib/binary-all/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:6 and /etc/apt/sources.list:8
W: Target Translations (contrib/i18n/Translation-en_US) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:6 and /etc/apt/sources.list:8
W: Target Translations (contrib/i18n/Translation-en) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:6 and /etc/apt/sources.list:8
W: Target Packages (main/binary-amd64/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:6 and /etc/apt/sources.list:7
W: Target Packages (main/binary-all/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:6 and /etc/apt/sources.list:7
W: Target Translations (main/i18n/Translation-en_US) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:6 and /etc/apt/sources.list:7
W: Target Translations (main/i18n/Translation-en) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:6 and /etc/apt/sources.list:7
W: Target Packages (non-free/binary-amd64/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:6 and /etc/apt/sources.list:7
W: Target Packages (non-free/binary-all/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:6 and /etc/apt/sources.list:7
W: Target Translations (non-free/i18n/Translation-en_US) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:6 and /etc/apt/sources.list:7
W: Target Translations (non-free/i18n/Translation-en) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:6 and /etc/apt/sources.list:7
W: Target Packages (contrib/binary-amd64/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:6 and /etc/apt/sources.list:7
W: Target Packages (contrib/binary-all/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:6 and /etc/apt/sources.list:7
W: Target Translations (contrib/i18n/Translation-en_US) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:6 and /etc/apt/sources.list:7
W: Target Translations (contrib/i18n/Translation-en) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:6 and /etc/apt/sources.list:7
W: Target Packages (main/binary-amd64/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:6 and /etc/apt/sources.list:8
W: Target Packages (main/binary-all/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:6 and /etc/apt/sources.list:8
W: Target Translations (main/i18n/Translation-en_US) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:6 and /etc/apt/sources.list:8
W: Target Translations (main/i18n/Translation-en) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:6 and /etc/apt/sources.list:8
W: Target Packages (non-free/binary-amd64/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:6 and /etc/apt/sources.list:8
W: Target Packages (non-free/binary-all/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:6 and /etc/apt/sources.list:8
W: Target Translations (non-free/i18n/Translation-en_US) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:6 and /etc/apt/sources.list:8
W: Target Translations (non-free/i18n/Translation-en) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:6 and /etc/apt/sources.list:8
W: Target Packages (contrib/binary-amd64/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:6 and /etc/apt/sources.list:8
W: Target Packages (contrib/binary-all/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:6 and /etc/apt/sources.list:8
W: Target Translations (contrib/i18n/Translation-en_US) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:6 and /etc/apt/sources.list:8
W: Target Translations (contrib/i18n/Translation-en) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:6 and /etc/apt/sources.list:8
root@sysresccd:/# apt-get install -y grub-efi
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
efibootmgr grub-common grub-efi-amd64 grub-efi-amd64-bin grub2-common
libefivar0 libpng12-0 os-prober
Suggested packages:
multiboot-doc grub-emu xorriso
The following NEW packages will be installed:
efibootmgr grub-common grub-efi grub-efi-amd64 grub-efi-amd64-bin
grub2-common libefivar0 libpng12-0 os-prober
0 upgraded, 9 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 4,215 kB of archives.
After this operation, 19.6 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Err:1 http://http.kali.org/kali sana/main amd64 libefivar0 amd64 0.15-3
404 Not Found
Err:2 http://http.kali.org/kali sana/main amd64 libpng12-0 amd64 1.2.50-2+b2
404 Not Found
Err:3 http://http.kali.org/kali sana/main amd64 efibootmgr amd64 0.11.0-3
404 Not Found
Err:4 http://http.kali.org/kali sana/main amd64 grub-common amd64 2.02~beta2-22
404 Not Found
Err:5 http://http.kali.org/kali sana/main amd64 grub2-common amd64 2.02~beta2-22
404 Not Found
Err:6 http://http.kali.org/kali sana/main amd64 grub-efi-amd64-bin amd64 2.02~beta2-22
404 Not Found
Err:7 http://http.kali.org/kali sana/main amd64 grub-efi-amd64 amd64 2.02~beta2-22
404 Not Found
Err:8 http://http.kali.org/kali sana/main amd64 grub-efi amd64 2.02~beta2-22
404 Not Found
Err:9 http://http.kali.org/kali sana/main amd64 os-prober amd64 1.65
404 Not Found
E: Failed to fetch http://http.kali.org/kali/pool/main/...15-3_amd64.deb 404 Not Found
E: Failed to fetch http://http.kali.org/kali/pool/main/...2+b2_amd64.deb 404 Not Found
E: Failed to fetch http://http.kali.org/kali/pool/main/....0-3_amd64.deb 404 Not Found
E: Failed to fetch http://http.kali.org/kali/pool/main/...2-22_amd64.deb 404 Not Found
E: Failed to fetch http://http.kali.org/kali/pool/main/...2-22_amd64.deb 404 Not Found
E: Failed to fetch http://http.kali.org/kali/pool/main/...2-22_amd64.deb 404 Not Found
E: Failed to fetch http://http.kali.org/kali/pool/main/...2-22_amd64.deb 404 Not Found
E: Failed to fetch http://http.kali.org/kali/pool/main/...2-22_amd64.deb 404 Not Found
E: Failed to fetch http://http.kali.org/kali/pool/main/...1.65_amd64.deb 404 Not Found
E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing?

Someone can help me ?

[newbie013]

It happens on certain machines that the EFI boot variables can't be fiddled around with inside chroot. The workaround for this is to exit out of the chroot and then create the boot entry manually:

efibootmgr -c -d /dev/sda -p X -l /EFI/kali/grubx64.efi -L "Kali Linux"

Make sure that you replace 'X' in the above command with the partition number of the EFI partition, which you had mounted at /mnt/boot/efi.

Hi
the same in vaio, but my solution: boot from live kali rolling , and mount partition efi around 105 mb, copy "grubx64.efi" from /EFI/kali/grubx64.efi to /EFI/Boot/grubx64.efi and unmount, reboot

before to this my disk contain three OS x64 UEFI:grub bootloader with EFI for win 8.1, Debian and older version kali
and latest version systemrescuecd 4.8.2 not contain bootx64.efi , used 4.5.4
thanks .... .this saving much time and without install refind