This may be only of interest only to people who Dual Boot. Here is what I saw on my PC when I booted Mint sometimes. Kernel Panic Please reboot your computer Fatal exception in interrupt My panic was I had just install MX 25 a couple days ago, so I delete the MX 25 partition thinking it was the …

[image] Howard : always thought a restart of the PC was the same as a shutdown (power off My guess is MX 25 during startup loads firmware into various motherboard components. The warm boot, I think , skips reloading firmware. So switching distros with a warm boot might try to run Mint on…

[image] Neville Jackson: The warm boot, I think , skips reloading firmware That was the exactly opinion of the AI. It suggest the cold boot which force the reloading of everything. Power off / power on - I never saw a panic. I thought it was a little funny that MX did not seem to care about …

[image] nevj: MX25 needs a couple more updates Reading about Howard s problems with mx 25 and given his level of computer knowledge why are others not jumping up and down about problems or is it just different things linked together hardware and op systems combinations causing this

[image] Howard : It suggest the cold boot which force the reloading of everything. Power off / power on I’d suggest playing around with GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX instead … [image] Boot works, Reboot doesn't General Linux Question I got it! After having a delic…

Boot works, Reboot doesn't Append reboot=pci to the variable GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX in… Yes, the AI suggest this change. "#GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=“quiet splash reboot=pci pci=nomsi acpi=force” But I see two extra parameters. Maybe over kill. The above change cause Mint to crawl. The mouse …

[image] Neville Jackson: I have MX25 controlling grub … I had Mint controlling grub. Do you think that would make a difference?

[image] Howard : So just adding the reboot=pci fixed your problem? Exactly, it did.

Strange we have 2 kernel panic questions today….. different hardware and linux systems.

Coincidence, what else? Wait - didn’t both have dual boot? :grin: :wink:

[image] Howard : thought it was a little funny that MX did not seem to care about the warm restart. Did not see a panic from MX, going form Mint to MX. Warm boots are generally OK. There is something strange about MX25? [image] Paul: why are others not jumping up and down about problem…

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abu (Alfred Bühler) 19 February 2026 21:57 5

I’d suggest playing around with GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX instead …