Blank Screen after Installing to External HDD?

[Flika]

I decided to install KL on my 3TB HDD, but I partitioned it leaving 2TB to still be used for other things. I fired up VirtualBox and added the external drive as a USB device and installed kali to the drive that way. I gave the root partition 20GB, the Swap space 16GB, and gave the rest to /home. When GRUB came up I put install to master boot record and finished up the instillation. However, when I select the drive to boot from in the BIOS, it just shows that flashing underscore and doesn't boot. Any ideas what went wrong?

[steev]

Not all external hard drives can be used to boot, it depends on the device unfortunately. Have you searched the net to see if your hard drive supports being a boot device (other people mentioning doing it and such)

[bigbiz]

I decided to install KL on my 3TB HDD, but I partitioned it leaving 2TB to still be used for other things. I fired up VirtualBox and added the external drive as a USB device and installed kali to the drive that way. I gave the root partition 20GB, the Swap space 16GB, and gave the rest to /home. When GRUB came up I put install to master boot record and finished up the instillation. However, when I select the drive to boot from in the BIOS, it just shows that flashing underscore and doesn't boot. Any ideas what went wrong?

Did you try Install grub

https://forums.kali.org/showthread.p...linux-on-a-SSD

[Flika]

Did you try Install grub

https://forums.kali.org/showthread.p...linux-on-a-SSD

I can;t really manually install anything because it doesn't boot into kali in the first place

[bigbiz]

I can;t really manually install anything because it doesn't boot into kali in the first place

Live boot from another device
fdisk -l find your hdd #
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[Flika]

Live boot from another device
fdisk -l find your hdd #
Continue

Command didn't work.
It doesn't recognize the command.