Could someone please help me? I made a bootable pendrive with Kali to install on my laptop, but every time I finish the installation and remove the pendrive the laptop does not recognize Kali. (and when I enter the BIOS there is nothing to start as boot). I have already installed several other Linux distros, including Parrot OS, but only with Kali does this happen… my laptop is a Galaxy Book 4. If someone can help me with the installation
how did you flash the usb? also is secure boot turned off?
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Balena Echer and yes, secure boot is off I really don’t know what is happening
From your post I’m assuming you only want Kali installed and not dual booting.
Next time you try, before installing anything, open GParted and delete any and all partitions it sees on the target drive, then create a single partition formatted ext4 and then point the installer at this. It should then create the correct folder structure and Grub setup.
If you want to set it up manually, on the target disk create partitions like this;
1 MB unformatted partition (this is there because of legacy reasons and an GPT drive needs this)
a 500 MB partition formatted FAT32 (can be up to a Gigabyte though never really needed this big), in GParted set ESP and Boot flags on this partition - this is where the Grub bootloader is installed to, if the Grub bootloader isnt installed, it won’t boot Kali!
Format the remainder EXT4 this is where you install Kali too.
If you want separate /home partition or other separate partitions, you could also split the drive up further, though for most users this is not needed. (If you boot multiple Linux distros and want to use a single shared home folder for example, then creating separate partitions makes sense)