I tried several times to install Kali on a laptop, but the same problem occurred every time I tried to install it.
At first, I thought it was an ISO integrity issue.
However, after verifying the integrity issue, I found that this was not the case, and there was no problem with the integrity of the ISO file.
This is part of the log I captured after the installation failed.
I am using a Lenovo E495 laptop with an R5 3500U processor and 16GB of RAM.
Please help me.
Does USB Live work? Use a scary version and not with a gnome. Choose the simplest even kde is a crime.
Your error message is complaining about no 64 bit EFI support, and considering the age of laptop, it should probably support that.
Check laptop manufacturer website to see if their are any updated BIOS/UEFI releases for your laptop and install any found first, then try installing again.
I’ve gone through each of the issues you mentioned and I’ve confirmed that my laptop has been updated to the latest firmware and supports 64bit Uefi,I even created a VM on the NAS server for testing to make sure it wasn’t a laptop computer issue to make sure that 64bit UEFI was being used,the test yielded the same issue and I can’t think of where the problem is.
Are you trying to install it with a different desktop and not XFCE at all?
I would suggest you let it install XFCE as well as Gnome, you will be able to choose the environment you want to boot into later, but if you untick XFCE perhaps there are some files it needs that are not being installed…
personally I typically install a system, have it working, and then later add and change things like desktop environments from a working system
I tested it, after installing the last version of 2024 and everything worked fine, I think this year’s new version is less stable from the first version of 2025.
When you install leave Kali default blank and top ten blank and when you install it add later . I did this and it works great on my laptop I learned from git hub
