I have tried almost everything I could find on the internet and I think I have rebooted my laptop like 50 times already while trying to make it work.
This is my laptop:
It's an msi, Intel Core i7-6700HQ
16.0 GB Ram
64-bit
GPU: Intel HD Graphics 530 && Nvidia GTX 960M
256 GB SSD (C:)
1024 GB HDD (D:)
How I installed kali:
I want to dual boot kali 2016.2 with windows 10 Home which is installed. I freed 60 GB on my D drive.
I downloaded the Kali Linux 64 bit Iso and wrote it to my 8gb usb with Win32 Disk Imager.
Shift+Restart and then boot from the usb.(It didn't work the first time because I had to disable secure boot which I did) Everything was normal, the kali Linux screen popped up and I choose the graphical install option.
At the partition disks menu I chose the first option "Guided - use the largest continuous free space " followed by "All files in one partition (recommended for new users)"
Use a network mirror?
Yes
It didn't ask me to install the GRUB boot loader but it did show at the last step "Installing GRUB boot loader" before it asked me to remove my usb so that's a little bit weird.
Anyway my laptop shut down and when it restarted it didn't give me any option to choose what I wanted to start and directly booted windows 10 as normal. So I shift+right clicked the restart button again and there, there was an option to boot kali, which I did.
It restarted and opened the GRUB boot loader and I chose the first option to boot kali linux.
The problem:
It asked me for my username and password like nothing was wrong, but when I tried to log in, it gave me a black screen and my mouse froze. Nothing was flickering or my mouse wasn't moving, the screen just froze. I shut down my laptop but it always happened when I try it again. I can press Ctrl+Alt+f2 before I try to login and then I can login via the term but when I try to login with the graphical login screen it always freezes, and Ctrl+Alt+{Any f key} doesn't work anymore when it's frozen.
What I tried:
- Running the live version from the usb works just fine. Is there any way to install it on my hdd when I'm on the live version?
- I tried things like apt-get update and apt-get upgrade which totally broke it so I had to start all over again. (may be because "apt-get dist-upgrade-y && reboot" just didn't work as "dist-upgrade-y" is not a command?
- I have redownloaded the iso multiple times and installed it over and over but no succes, it's always the same.
- I have downloaded the Light version of kali 64 bit, but again the same problem: It freezes after I log-in. The only difference is that it's just a black screen without a frozen mouse here -_-
- So the live version works, but I really want to install it.
- Someone said this: "Open folders EFI - BOOT. Open syslinux.cfg with a text editor. Change "vesamenu.c32" to "menu.c32"." I tried this on the live version but when I install it I get the same problem.
I'm losing really losing my mind now. Does anyone know how to fix this?