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    Grub boot screen shows - blinking cursor

    Hey so I had wiped my hard drive and previously installed Linux Mint, afterwards I used gparted to partition the hard drive in order to install Kali Linux. Grub recognized that I had Linux Mint already installed and so I installed Grub boot loader. After rebooting I am shown the Grub boot screen and both Linux Mint and Kali Linux show up but after clicking on either one I am shown a black screen with a blinking white cursor. I am able to boot into Linux Mint though if I just leave the system to boot up by itself.

    Any help would be appreciated!

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    Boot from livecd or usb
    in terminal window:

    sudo su
    TARGET=/media/sda1
    mkdir -p $TARGET

    mount /dev/sda1 $TARGET
    mount --bind /dev $TARGET/dev
    mount --bind /dev/pts $TARGET/dev/pts
    mount --bind /proc $TARGET/proc
    mount --bind /sys $TARGET/sys

    cp /etc/resolv.conf $TARGET/etc/
    chroot $TARGET /bin/bash

    This places you in a root terminal on the #! system
    Do whatever you want to do there,


    grub-install /dev/sda
    update-grub

    To exit from chroot:
    control-D

    This brings you back to where you were in the live session and you can unmount

    umount -l $TARGET/dev/pts
    umount -l $TARGET/dev
    umount -l $TARGET/proc
    umount -l $TARGET/sys

    Thats it...

    Reboot into the #! system on disk.

    Edit1: Replaced '/usr/bin/bash' by '/bin/bash'
    Edit2: Start with defining TARGET, and reference it in all subsequent lines.
    Edit3: Use sudo su in stead of sudo
    Edit4: cp /etc/resolv.conf into the chroot to make apt-get possible
    Last edited by Gh0sT.sh; 2016-02-26 at 06:52. Reason: Corrections
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