I've actually been having a similar problem.. I'm trying to dual boot Kali with Windows XP (yeah I know, old school) but every time I configure the live USB I can ONLY boot it in failsafe mode and the install never works, not even from a mini iso, it just reboots my computer.. I've only caught a glimpse of the error message and it has something to do with firmware aborting, or aborting because of firmware..? I'm not sure but it won't work in failsafe mode either after I install it.. however occasionally I have gotten a black screen instead of it rebooting.. but my keyboard doesn't have any lights on it and nothing works.
My system is a Dell Optiplex GX 520 with a Pentium 4 single core CPU at 3GHz, a Nvidia 6200 GPU and 2GB of RAM
