I am using a Macbook Air (2013) with Intel HD Graphics 5000. I made a USB to live-boot into Kali and install it onto a separate partition, essentially dual boot my Yosemite (OSX 10.10) with Kali Linux. I am using rEFInd to load the live USB, and am able to get to the screen that asks me to choose what to load (Live amd64, Live forensic mode, install, graphic install, etc). Every option that I choose leads me to a black screen with a blinking cursor after these two lines appear on the screen: Loading /live/vmlinuz... ok and Loading /live/initrd.img... ok. The cursor keeps blinking, and nothing appears to happen. I have tried adding nomodeset to the boot options of some of the choices (after hitting tab and appending 'nomodeset' to the end) to no avail, and am really stuck on what to do. Each of the other questions regarding this are different from my specifications.
Kali Linux black screen with blinking curser after USB boot
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I was using Rufus to create the image and had the same error. I used Win32 Disk Imager and problem solved..http://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/?source=typ_redirect