Kali Linux for Pinebook Pro

[JackOnStoke]

Hi team,

Sorry if this has been brought up. I received my Pinebook Pro this morning and I've been trawling to try and find the answer to this issue.

I've flashed the latest Kali Linux image for Pinebook Pro from Offensive Security using the PINE 64 Installer to an SD card, but when I try to boot from it I simply get a flashing cursor for a few seconds before the screen goes unexpectedly black and remains that way. 

If I then power off the machine I get just the briefest glimpse of the Kali login screen before it shuts down. It's quite maddening to know that it appears to be running, I just can't see it. Has anybody else had this and can maybe point me towards a solution?

Thank you very much!

Any luck with this? I've successfully flashed/booted both the 2020.2 distro and several nightly builds, including today's release (06/26) and been able to boot from SD without issue. I generally use Etcher to flash the .img to SD and then from there i use 'dd if=imagename.img /dev/mmcblk2 bs=4M status=progress' to flash the Kali image to the eMMC module.

Also, if you flash the 2020.2 release image to your eMMC module and then run 'apt-get update' it will soft brick your PBP. This issue has been fixed in nightly releases and still works fine (for me) up to and including today's release.

Best of luck.

Thank you! I ended up getting quite frustrated and opting to run Ubuntu with select Kali packages installed using katoolin3.

That said, I have had time to cool off so I'll be sure to try the latest nightly build, or at the very least the 6/26. Thanks again!