Loaded Kali in HVM- but it wont boot. should be a simple fix for someone with experience of Qubes.

[ajwwo...@gmail.com]

I have installed Kali as HVM standalone VM, but when the installation shutdown at the end and i restart the VM I get the following boot message.

Seabios (version rel 1.11.2-0-gf9626cc prebuilt.qmeu-project.org)

Machine UUID

Booting from Hard Disk

Boot failed; not bootable disk

Booting from floppy

Boot failed: could not read the boot disk

No bootable device.

I installed my iso image on a device vxdb in install and then took the option to install the grub boot loader on the same device in the installation.

Is SEABIOS a virtual bios in QUBES and do i need to edit it? I'm not running coreboot on my lenovno t530.

Some points of note on the various Kali installs i did;

I could reach a time server, so the netowork routes were working.

I could never attach to a mirror and proceeded with just the ISO image

Any further advice would really help as it feels like I'm really close to this working now.

[Peter Thurner]

You can install katoolin https://github.com/LionSec/katoolin in a debian
VM instead of installing kali itself.

This doesn't fix your problem but you can just use a working debian
template as a starting point.

[ajwwo...@gmail.com]

Thank Peter but i experience more problems that way and could never get it working, htis way seems like i'm really close, just need to know how to fis this boot issue. thanks.

[ajwwo...@gmail.com]

Update: I have tried the Katoolin approach that did not work either, so please if someone, know how to this simple problem for hte ISO approach then I will be ok.

[Peter Thurner]

Ah really? Ok qubes 4 I suppose? I haven't tried that since 3. What
didn't work?