kali linux black screen with underscore virtualbox

OpenSUSE is installed, it’s just not starting the GUI, sitting on blinking underscore instead. You seem to be talking about the installer with textmode=1 but I tried that anyway, same result. Tried adding plymouth.enable=0 as well, same result. The prevalence of Linux boot CDs led me to believe it would handle the hardware change, but since everything I’ve read online points to this being a graphics driver issue, and I have both AMD and Nvidia graphics cards, I’m starting to doubt that. Was hoping to set up Linux in a VM on a passed through drive so I could eventually switch to booting from it. WSL2 still requires me to use windows, which I’m trying to get away from. What about as well as nomodeset add plymouth.enable=0 (maybe even drop to text mode installer with textmode=1) but if you have such slow internet, it may be far better to find somewhere to download the full iso image very likely it can’t get the drivers for the graphics to run…

Tl dr already tried nomodeset, didn’t help, what’s next? Now if I Ctrl + Alt + Fkey it very briefly shows a login prompt, but immediately (split-second) goes back to hv_balloon and the blinking cursor.Īdding nomodeset and removing quiet does the same thing as just removing quiet. dynamic memory size: 8192 MB' and the blinking cursor is on the second line. Now after about a minute of blinking cursor it says ' 52.489549] C0] hv_balloon: Max. I noticed quiet in the boot options next to where I was putting nomodeset, so I figured I’d take that out and see what happened. Googled around, found a lot of forum threads telling people to add nomodeset to grub boot options while starting up, so I tried that, but it didn’t help. Ctrl + Alt + Fkeys does bring up tty# and I can log in to a command line, so I shutdown and went to google (actually duckduckgo but whatever) I concluded that it must have crashed or be stuck on something, so I force reset the VM. Task manager in windows showed a repeating pattern of heavy disk reads and light writes, repeating in time with the orange dots disappearing. I didn’t stare too long at it, so that’s only vague memory. Guided setup partitions, ticked the box for LVM and separate /home (XFS), all other options left at defaultĭue to my <1mb internet, the install said is was going to take 4 hours, so I came back to it 6 hours later to find 3 orange dots with some sort of breathing effect animation, but they’d disappear and reappear roughly every 5 seconds. iso with matching SHA256 and passed media check Installed from freshly downloaded netinstall Tumbleweed. Passed through USB SSD is the only drive available to the VM

Installed into Hyper-V VM on windows 10 21H1

Kali linux black screen with underscore virtualbox