I wanted to try and give Kali linux a shot installed to bare metal on my Framework but ran into a problem right after making the USB media. Both with the just the installer image and live image when I go to boot from the USB on my laptop it goes directly to a blank grub screen exactly as described in these other two examples:
Neither thread seemed to get to an actual solution. I did find this guide by another Framework community member so clearly it did work at some point, as another example for the year before also had a forum member report a successful install:
Yep, still getting the same behaviour. Flashed a fresh USB just now just to be sure cause I noticed those instructions show using the conv=fsync flag using the dd method. But same as before, the USB boots and works just fine on my desktop but on my Framework I just get that black screen and cursor.
This is all it took for me, and I was able to get to the graphical Kali Linux installation prompt. Something between PopOS and Kali Linux seems to screw with the bootloader. Grub is a finnicky thing. I hope this helps in the future.
I just wasted almost a day on this problem. It looks like the issue is caused in part by the existence of /.disk/info on the PopOS recovery partition that gets created as part of their standard install. I looked through the Kali grub configs and saw this:
Edit: Looks like at a minimum it causes the recovery image checksum process to fail during boot since the file is obviously no longer there; it was able to boot successfully despite the error message though.
I believe it supports linux (Kali or any other) but it won't be easy to install it. I'd recommend a pure linux without any Windows especially when Windows are not needed/necessary. Clean install is easy and all you need is to disable Secure Boot (nothing to do with security) in EFI. LiveUSB created via UnetBootin worked for me on my Windows 10 laptop. Now linux only.:)
i recommend you try a distro which is more user friendly like ubuntu or linux mint first even if you want to try kali. i would not recommend kali unless you really need it and as far as know kali isn't magic: recent hp laptops seem to be unable to use wireshark for analysing wifi or create an adhoc wifi hotspot, kali won't fix that, you'll have to buy a different network card (if you can circumvent it, please tell me)
one more thing if you ever try installing something obscure like android x86, you should first try installing it on an empty hdd, then install it on an hdd with a fresh install (where it won't matter if you accidentally erase the entire drive...)
Hello, i made a dumb mistake messed around on kali linux did something to turn off my wifi. I ended up fresh installing kali linux. Still no luck, i then fresh installed elementary OS still no luck. I then went back to kali linux. No luck.
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