Live boot stuck at _ and black screen when trying to install - Parrotsec

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Rupansh Sekar

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Hi my pc is a bit old so i decided to switch to linux. I decided on Parrotsec and yes It does satisfy my requirements. Anyways I made a bootable USB drive using YUMI, restarted went to boot menu and booted using my usb drive. Now when i selected Install , for a while i saw the parrot sec backgroud and then it went black. My monitor for some reason was still receiving signal. When I clicked power button I didn't need to hold it and it rebooted quickly. Next I tried Live boot only to find that I was stuck at "_" which kept on blinking. This time I had to hold PowerButton. I need your help guys. TIA! I have normal BIOS if that helps.
 
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As Rocky was suggesting, these infosec distro's are not really meant to be "installed" as the main distro but either ran live, or in a virtual machine. Even though they are meant for the security industry, they are really not very safe distro's to run as a main distro because everything typically runs as the root user.

I'd suggest that you run something like Linux Mint as your main distro, then install ParrotSec in a VM using VirtualBox.
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Rupansh Sekar

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Hi as I said ParrotSec was satisfying my requirements specifically so that I don't get replies like these. It would have been pure drag to install the packages I needed in Ubuntu so yeah parrotsec for my requirements. Anyways back to the topic, Apparently my Old pc has a sh**ty motherboard which does not have proper support for USB boot. I installed it using CD though. and I wonder how is your answer even relevant to the question I asked. Like if a distro is not installing then try another one? that doesn't even make sense. Sorry for being a little blunt but I was seriously annoyed by your "answer".
 
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As Rocky was suggesting, these infosec distro's are not really meant to be "installed" as the main distro but either ran live, or in a virtual machine. Even though they are meant for the security industry, they are really not very safe distro's to run as a main distro because everything typically runs as the root user.

I'd suggest that you run something like Linux Mint as your main distro, then install ParrotSec in a VM using VirtualBox.
 
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