Dual Booting Kali Linux with Windows 7

[RedForman]

Question:
I have an hp Pavilion dv7 running Win 7. Trying to install Kali as a dual boot following the instructions given, free up 30GB of space on the HD for install, but when I go through the process to use the "largest continuous free space", it chooses my USB stick from the Live Install. When I manually select the space I want to use, Kali says it's |unusable". I have 4 "Partitions" in total. Recovery, Win 7, HP_TOOLS, and "SYSTEM". Is it possible it's saying the 30GB of unallocated space is unusable because of the amount of partitions? Is there a way around this without trashing the recovery software (recovery and HP_TOOLS are both part of the "Recovery software")?

[viper_pranish]

I am having a problem that when I try to dual boot my laptop, and install kali after windows 8, it shows the disk as whole disk without partition. But when I use kali withot installing, it shows all the files and again when I do gparted while running kali without installind, it shows as unlocated space. Please help me
Thank you

[lenikadali]

Hello all. I am dual booting Kali Linux v1.07 with Windows 7 64-bit Ultimate on an Acer Travelmate 5744 laptop.

When I first installed the earlier versions of Kali, GRUB recognized the Win OS as 'Windows Vista' and that is how it was displayed in the boot menu.
When I'd click on it, I'd get the message 'error: no argument specified'. Pressing the Enter key would bring me to Windows 7.
However in the recent versions of Kali, this problem has been solved and GRUB recognizes the Win OS as 'Windows 7'.
My problem is that since I've been dist-upgrading, both the 'Windows Vista' and 'Windows 7' entries appear in the boot menu.
How can I remove the 'Windows Vista' entry from the boot menu? Any assistance would be helpful.

[1jstrong]

Hey guys,

Get through the install just fine. I tried to upgrade the Nvidia drivers like the Kali.org docs say to do and there I am having problems. I get through all of this fine:

apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade
apt-get install -y linux-headers-$(uname -r)
apt-get install nvidia-kernel-dkms

Once I type and enter this line:

sed 's/quiet/quiet nouveau.modeset=0/g' -i /etc/default/grub

It gave me an error like the sed wasn't there or available. So I did this:

update-grub
reboot

It gives me the three options to load fine. Windows will load as normal, but once all the boot config launches, all I get is a black, blank screen with a blinking cursor. All I can do is reboot via ctrl-alt-del. I've waited for minutes thinking it just needed time to load up, but nothing.

Any Thoughts?

Jason S.

[1jstrong]

Hello All,

Sorry if someone has already asked this questions. I looked through the 4 pages and didn't see it asked. I did the dual boot with Kali and Windows 7. Got through the install no problem, and then I started the Nvidia graphics upgrade that the documentation says to do. I completed all of this:

apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade
apt-get install -y linux-headers-$(uname -r)
apt-get install nvidia-kernel-dkms

On the next line, sed 's/quiet/quiet nouveau.modeset=0/g' -i /etc/default/grub it gave me an error. I don't remember what it was at this time, but it was something about sed being unavailable or not there. So I updated the "update-grub" and did the reboot command. Once it rebooted, I got the boot menu fine, but once it was done with all the (booting maybe) where all the instructions launch, I just get the blinking cursor. Nothing I can do brings up anything. I am able to boot to Windows fine though.
Any thoughts?

Thanks in Advance,

Jason

[Udbhav8]

HI, Guys ....... My problem is that i reently installed Kali Linux on my pc (single boot) and now i want to install windows on my pc .......when i made a bootable drive for windows and started installing it it says windows cannot be instaled as it requires a NTFS drive ,So my question is how do i mange my partitions in kali linux and create a NTFS drive,Thanks in Advance

[duxim]

HI, Guys ....... My problem is that i reently installed Kali Linux on my pc (single boot) and now i want to install windows on my pc .......when i made a bootable drive for windows and started installing it it says windows cannot be instaled as it requires a NTFS drive ,So my question is how do i mange my partitions in kali linux and create a NTFS drive,Thanks in Advance

In this scenario it better and easier first install Windows and after that Kali linux.

[@root]

My issue was SOLVED!
Thanks!

[Brackenwood]

Hi guys first post here, i hope i haven't missed a similar post with an answer but I am having terrible trouble with the install, all seems to go perfectly fine, partitioned the swap 3gb and the installation completed once the system restarts it just goes back to windows, no sign of Grub even though it was said to have installed. i have scoured the net and tried installations about 15 times to no avail. would be great of anyone could explain to me why i cant seem to get any kind of boot option for Kali. I'm testing the install on a asus x55c standard basic config.

[duxim]

Hi guys first post here, i hope i haven't missed a similar post with an answer but I am having terrible trouble with the install, all seems to go perfectly fine, partitioned the swap 3gb and the installation completed once the system restarts it just goes back to windows, no sign of Grub even though it was said to have installed. i have scoured the net and tried installations about 15 times to no avail. would be great of anyone could explain to me why i cant seem to get any kind of boot option for Kali. I'm testing the install on a asus x55c standard basic config.

this problems is related to your iso files kali image. download another kali iso img (32 or 64 depends of your system) and preform SHA1Sum check is it OK. If it is not ok, download another one. After that make boot USB or CD and install Kali linux.
or the second problem could be at your kali partition. wipe it and try again instalation

[Royal.Ninja]

Hi there
I tried dual booting Kali and win 10 and partitioned some space for Kali in won 10

But when I boot to Kali installation rather then showing me unlocated partition of 107 GB
it's shows me combination of my D and E drive which is of 827 GB I tried to partition it but
I corrupted my window any help I installed Windows again

So PLZ tell me what i do ?

[_defalt]

Hi there
I tried dual booting Kali and win 10 and partitioned some space for Kali in won 10

But when I boot to Kali installation rather then showing me unlocated partition of 107 GB
it's shows me combination of my D and E drive which is of 827 GB I tried to partition it but
I corrupted my window any help I installed Windows again

So PLZ tell me what i do ?

In a partitioning method while installation, installer asks you which method do you want to choose:
Guided-use entire disk
Guided-use entire disk and choose LVM
Guided-use entire disk and set up encrypted LVM
Manual

which one are you choosing?

[ratdon]

I've installed a dual boot Kali 2016.2 successfully along side windows 7. I worked in both and they were fine (Except the 2nd issue.). Until I put a update in Kali. I've the below issues.

1. After the update, I'm not getting my wireless card to work in Windows. My windows 7 detects my wireless device in device manager. I've reinstalled, disabled/enabled the wireless device, but of no use. "ipconfig" shows that media disconnected. I've added NETDOWN='no' in "/etc/default/halt", but of no effect.

2. The maximum volume in Kali is much lower than that of windows (Both the inbuilt speaker and with an earphone). So to watch a properly ripped video, I have to login to windows, watch it and switch back to kali.

One more thing, I currently have the default graphics driver nouveau. Since I've dual graphics, I want to try the bumblebee. Is there anything I should know or be careful of, before proceeding to that? As I've read at many places, that after installing the nVidia drivers, they were not able to login to their Linux.

System Details:
Lenovo Z50-70
Core i5, 12 GB RAM, 2GB nVidia 820M along with Intel HD graphics.

Here's the output of "lspci"

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Haswell-ULT DRAM Controller (rev 0b)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Haswell-ULT Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0b)
00:03.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation Haswell-ULT HD Audio Controller (rev 0b)
00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 8 Series USB xHCI HC (rev 04)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 8 Series HECI #0 (rev 04)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 8 Series HD Audio Controller (rev 04)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 8 Series PCI Express Root Port 3 (rev e4)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 8 Series PCI Express Root Port 4 (rev e4)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 8 Series PCI Express Root Port 5 (rev e4)
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 8 Series USB EHCI #1 (rev 04)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 8 Series LPC Controller (rev 04)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 8 Series SATA Controller 1 [AHCI mode] (rev 04)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 8 Series SMBus Controller (rev 04)
01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 10)
02:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8723BE PCIe Wireless Network Adapter
03:00.0 3D controller: NVIDIA Corporation GF117M [GeForce 610M/710M/810M/820M / GT 620M/625M/630M/720M] (rev a1)

[abhijeet]

I've installed a dual boot Kali 2016.2 successfully along side windows 7. I worked in both and they were fine (Except the 2nd issue.). Until I put a update in Kali. I've the below issues.

1. After the update, I'm not getting my wireless card to work in Windows. My windows 7 detects my wireless device in device manager. I've reinstalled, disabled/enabled the wireless device, but of no use. "ipconfig" shows that media disconnected. I've added NETDOWN='no' in "/etc/default/halt", but of no effect.

2. The maximum volume in Kali is much lower than that of windows (Both the inbuilt speaker and with an earphone). So to watch a properly ripped video, I have to login to windows, watch it and switch back to kali.

One more thing, I currently have the default graphics driver nouveau. Since I've dual graphics, I want to try the bumblebee. Is there anything I should know or be careful of, before proceeding to that? As I've read at many places, that after installing the nVidia drivers, they were not able to login to their Linux.

System Details:
Lenovo Z50-70
Core i5, 12 GB RAM, 2GB nVidia 820M along with Intel HD graphics.

Here's the output of "lspci"

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Haswell-ULT DRAM Controller (rev 0b)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Haswell-ULT Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0b)
00:03.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation Haswell-ULT HD Audio Controller (rev 0b)
00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 8 Series USB xHCI HC (rev 04)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 8 Series HECI #0 (rev 04)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 8 Series HD Audio Controller (rev 04)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 8 Series PCI Express Root Port 3 (rev e4)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 8 Series PCI Express Root Port 4 (rev e4)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 8 Series PCI Express Root Port 5 (rev e4)
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 8 Series USB EHCI #1 (rev 04)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 8 Series LPC Controller (rev 04)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 8 Series SATA Controller 1 [AHCI mode] (rev 04)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 8 Series SMBus Controller (rev 04)
01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 10)
02:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8723BE PCIe Wireless Network Adapter
03:00.0 3D controller: NVIDIA Corporation GF117M [GeForce 610M/710M/810M/820M / GT 620M/625M/630M/720M] (rev a1)

1. I think there is no connection of kali with your windows while accessing your wifi driver. There might be some other reasons due to which your wireless is not working.
2. For speaker i am not sure about the solution but may be you should play with alsa tools or you can configure it through HDAJackRetask.
3. You get the nouveau driver by default in linux and after that if you want to install nvidia drivers than here is the link you can follow.https://forums.kali.org/showthread.p...Optimus-laptop .

I am using nvidia in my lenovo Y50 with the help of this guide and its working fine with regular updates.
I hope this will help

[asusrog]

please clue me just finished installing linux on my laptop's time 2 win 10 and time booting linux, the installation went smoothly until the finish. and when I enter the root user name and password paswornya according to which I made when installing. but do not want to get into the linux desktop time. that there is only silver appearance but did not break in time desktop linux .. please guide. thank you