On 22/12/2025 at 23:04, Grzegorz Szymaszek wrote:
Kali 2025.4 live system and installer fail similarly, though live
system in fail-safe mode works quite well.
AFAIK Kali live fail-safe kernel command line has the following kernel
parameters:
memtest noapic noapm nodma nomce nolapic nomodeset nosmp vga=normal
Debian live with GNOME does not finish booting even in fail-safe mode,
Debian live fail-safe kernel command line has the following kernel
parameters:
memtest noapic noapm nodma nomce nosmp vga=788
If it fails, we can assume none of them helps.
Kernel parameters which are present in Kali live fail-safe command line
but not in Debian live fail-safe command line are nolapic and nomodeset.
The Debian installer does not use any graphic driver for real hardware
which requires modesetting, so my best guess would be nolapic.
