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Hello!
I have a Kali VM set up and it's been working for months. I shut it down one day and it won't boot.
Here is a video of the boot screen. It's blurry, but the description has the hanging line typed. https://youtu.be/25BBOyaQn3w
I have allocated 120 GB to the VM and it is only at about 30, so storage shouldn't be an issue. I have 7.5 GB of RAM allocated, so memory shouldn't be an issue. The only thing I can think of is that I may have shut down the VM with a terminal open. Nothing was actively running though (apt-get update, apt-get upgrade, etc.) and I've done it before.
If you want any more info, I can get it!
Thanks!
Last edited by TobyJoseph; 04-17-2017 at 05:46 PM.
Yeah, Advanced Options takes me to a screen where I can select different boot modes (similar to the grub menu of Ubuntu). I've tried to go into recovery mode and it doesn't boot in because of that Vbox fail you mentioned earlier.
I wouldn't know what to do with recovery mode anyway.
Good Luck.
Kali is an Advanced Linux Distribution, not meant, nor intended for new users of Linux.
I have 23 years in IT and I've never even installed, nor used it. No reason.
Maybe the solution was found by putting it into a web-search:
Started Update UTMP about System Runlevel Changes
(tho using Kali seems to mysteriously correlate with: not doing that)
Good Luck.
Kali is an Advanced Linux Distribution, not meant, nor intended for new users of Linux.
I have 23 years in IT and I've never even installed, nor used it. No reason.
Snapshots.
Create a new VM and start over.
Good Luck and you are welcome.
I made a new VM. I did some testing and found that the vdi was corrupted.
Maybe the solution was found by putting it into a web-search:
Started Update UTMP about System Runlevel Changes
(tho using Kali seems to mysteriously correlate with: not doing that)
I appreciate the condescending response, but google was of no help (I mean look at what I'm replying to).
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