What have you tried: I have tried to dual boot Kali Linux with windows 11, but still booting up in windows, turned off secure boot and everything. The dual boot was working on windows 10 but I cleaned up the disk and installed windows 11 and Kali Linux.
What is the error: Just booting direct into windows 11
What device is this on: Acer Travelmate
@Futurist try pressing F2 or F11 or F12(based on your manufacturing) to open the BIOS and then using arrow keys go to âBootâ menu, there you go to the preferences and bring "Kali linux"to top. Now the booting will occur from kali then windows.
I think it should resolve it, kali also in âMainâ menu disable âFast Boot.â
When the computer first boots do you get the grub menu?
No just goes straight to windows 11
In the boot order itâs just bring windows boot manager as the first one then the disks.
I tried bcdedit command in CMD to confirm if itâs installed and it shows up on the list
If no grub is installed then you wont be able to get to Kali.
When dual booting its always very important that you install WIndows first, and Linux second. This is because if you do it the other way around, Windows over writes grub. Do you remember in which order you installed them?
I installed windows 10 first then dual booted with Linux and it worked, but I cleaned the disk and installed windows 11 then dual boot with Kali Linux but it is failing to dual boot, the installation of Kali Linux is showing successful everything with grub.
You have just demonstrated exactly what I said. When you installed Windows 11, it overwrote grub.
Grub gets installed to the first sector of the hard drive and the Linux installer will detect other operating systems, and add them to the grub menu thereby allowing you to dual-boot. Windows assumes it is the only OS on the drive, so writes over the first sector of the hard drive with its own Master Boot Record which points just at Windows.
I would use a bootable Linux disc/flash drive and re-install grub.
You can use the dual boot guides available online to repair your grub bootloader, or you can use resactux, which will do the repair for you;
I installed windows 10 first then dual booted with Linux and it worked, but I cleaned the disk and installed windows 11 then dual boot with Kali Linux but it is failing to dual boot, the installation of Kali Linux is showing successful everything with grub.
Ok here is the clear explanation, 1 install windows 10 then Linux it dual boots successfully then I clean the disk like wipe it out nothing left. Then 2 I install windows 11 while the secure boot is off it installs successfully login and set up my environment, then I install Linux now as the second OS apart from win 11 everything is done then it boots to windows
I wouldnât be surprised if windows hasnât âswitched onâ secure boot for you, or perhaps it has a TPM chip that is preventing Kali from booting.
follow this guide