If you look carefully of the last page, the radio button for writing the boot record to disk is by default is to ,NOT write the boot record. You have to change it to 'yes' before you continue!If you dont, then ofcourse it reboots and since nothing changed in the boot sequence it boots the iso again...On Sun, May 10, 2020, 07:54 Keith Bainbridge <ke1th3216@zoho.com> wrote:On 10/5/20 1:24 pm, Harry Brown wrote:
> Hey guys,
>
> I'm having a bit of an issue here while installing KaliLinux and I was
> wondering if you guys can help out.
>
> I installed *Oracle VirtualBox* on my *Windows 10* and downloaded *Kali
> Linux 64bit ISO file*, Then I created a new virtual machine *(Debian
> 64bit)*and started installing KaliLinux.
> Everything was great and almost 5GB of packages were downloaded and
> installed, the final step is to reboot so KaliLinux can run.
> I clicked on Finish Installation (after all packages and files were
> installed ) and it showed me a message saying that Kali will run after
> the machine reboot.
>
> Guess what! *The machine rebooted and it took me back to the first
> installation page again*, I didn't know what happened or if I did
> something wrong so I clicked "Install" again and followed the steps.
> And I had to wait **again for the 5GB of packages to be downloaded and
> installed ( which was frustrating ).
> Installation was finished and the machine rebooted and nothing happened.
> *it took me back to the first installation page once again.*
> *
> *
> I know it's a long email (sorry about that), But I needed to make sure
> that you guys are fully aware of what's the issue so you can help.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> HB.
>
Good afternoon Harry
I sometimes have to go into the settings for the virtual device and
untick the other boot options - CD and floppy from memory.
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