Kernel Panic Error - Trying to dual boot Windows 11 and Bazzite
Hey friends,
I'm in the middle of trying to set up a dual boot situation with Windows 11 and Bazzite. However, after booting into the Grub menu and selecting the Bazzite ISO on my USB drive, I get a kernel panic error that says it's out of memory.
Here's things I've tried or done already as per the instructions in the documentation and the recommended YouTube video:
- shrunk my main drive to allot sufficient space for Bazzite
- disabled fast boot both in the OS and in the BIOS
- disabled secure boot in the BIOS
- tried both the bazzite-nvidia-open-stable and Live ISOs
- used balena etcher to flash both ISOs to my USB drive
- validated the checksum
I'm unsure how to proceed. The official Bazzite installation troubleshooting guide doesn't seem to have information about this issue/error.
I have an Nvidia GPU, and I'm trying to install the KDE Plasma desktop environment version.
Solution:Jump to solution
I was able to discover and implement the solution to this error myself. So I'm going to document the solution and mark it here as solved for anyone else running into this issue.
For my motherboard (Asus tuf gaming z790 -plus Wi-Fi), I had to disable both secure boot as well as TPM. In addition, the live ISO won't allow manual EFI system partitioning which is required for dual booting. So after disabling secure boot fastboot and TPM in your bios, make sure you flashed the non-live ISO to your USB drive. Then you can follow the instructions in the video from Mike's Tech tips....
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Solution
I was able to discover and implement the solution to this error myself. So I'm going to document the solution and mark it here as solved for anyone else running into this issue.
For my motherboard (Asus tuf gaming z790 -plus Wi-Fi), I had to disable both secure boot as well as TPM. In addition, the live ISO won't allow manual EFI system partitioning which is required for dual booting. So after disabling secure boot fastboot and TPM in your bios, make sure you flashed the non-live ISO to your USB drive. Then you can follow the instructions in the video from Mike's Tech tips.