Linux - Blue screen of death

Linux Mint
1

Yes, Linux has it’s version of Blue Screen of Death, but my screen was not blue.
It happen after updating Mint 22.3 and having kernel 7.0 installed.

After the update / upgrade the next boot I got;
Kernel Panic
Please Reboot your PC
UFS: Unable to mount root FS on unknown - block(0,0)

From my research, I found I could go to advance option on the grub menu and select a different kernel to boot. Selecting kernel 6.17 the PC booted fine. I next uninstall kernel 7.0 and ‘sudo update-grub’.

It was nice that my PC is dual boot. I was able to boot MX and search how to correct the problem.

2

It cant mount the root filesystem .
That may be an initramfs problem
It doesnt seem to be a grub issue because you could boot another kernel.
I would not like to see that happen to a beginner. … how could they release a dud kernel? That is bad.

Yes that is one benefit of dual boot.

3

The other suggestion was just that, a possible problem with initramfs.
It said to run this command in terminal.

sudo update initramfs -u -k -all
sudo update-grub

But I took the route of loading an alternate kernel.

4

I saw several posts on Reddit about it. They said it was not wide spread. Must be certain hardware or installation options like file system.

5

Yeah, it cant be everywhere … we would hear about it.

6

I will say that a recovery from the kernel panic was a lot easier then Window’s Blue screen of death.

In Windows, I would of had to restore the OS. Because I have Linux, I was able to recover form the kernel panic just by selecting a different kernel.

Another plus for Linux. The OS takes such a small partition, I had a second Linux distro on the PC that I was able to boot from and than search for an answer to the panic.

7

Most Linuxes will run in a 25Gb VM with 4G of ram. Some cutdown linuxes like antix will run in much less than that.
I would not make a hard partition that small though … you need a big of breathing space.

8

My guest OS is MX and it sits in a partition of 25 GB. Free space in that partition is 12 GB!
Not bad, I would say.

9

Try free -m … see how much ram it uses
The result will depend on how much ram you have in your computer. The kernel adapts … if you put it in a smaller compiter it will use less ram

10

Looks pretty good to me.

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