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Thread: Not Installing After Repair

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    Not Installing After Repair

    Hi, I'm obviously having trouble installing Kali Linux. In May, my hard drive was wiped and I couldn't install any operating systems so I had to send it in for repairs. Keep in mind that before the hard drive wipe, I had Kali Linux 2 and Windows 10 installed. After 3 months, I sent in my laptop (yes, I'm a procrastinator) and they sent it back and installed Windows 10. I tried to boot up Kali Linux 2016.2 through DVD but I'm greeted with the ISOLINUX splash screen; the thing is, it stays there. This had never happened before. I thought it was something wrong with the install itself so I burned it onto another DVD, but it still stayed on the ISOLINUX screen. To see if it was because of another corrupted download, I tried booting it up in VirtualBox and it worked fine. I'm a little frustrated because my knowledge is kind of basic. My laptop is an Acer F554LA-NH51 (4 gb ram, i5 5200u, etc). Can anyone help me with this? Thanks.
    -K

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    Do you have any info on the video card? In my experience, this sounds like a video card driver issue that's keeping Kali from booting.

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    Quote Originally Posted by grid View Post
    Do you have any info on the video card? In my experience, this sounds like a video card driver issue that's keeping Kali from booting.
    All I know is that it's a built in Intel HD Graphics 5500. I do know that I tried to play some games after the repair that lagged a lot, and I hard to update the drivers. Otherwise, I don't have any information.

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    I suppose there's a problem with your system not booting kali-linux. Is your system type UEFI? I'm not sure with DVD but if your system is UEFI then you have to manually add .efi in the setup.

    I've stopped using DVD for a long time. Since then I've been using bootable USB to install kali-linux. Maybe you should give a try to install it via USB.

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