Kernel panic after fresh installation

So there were posts about this error VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0) As far as I understand there was no other solution other than installing bazzite on top of fedora. When I tried to install it it gave me this error I tried installing it with ventoy, rufus and balena ether and none of them worked, after that I tried to install it in VM (in my case hyper V) and clone partitions from vhd fille to my nvme drive and it worked without any issues so there is a problem during instalation on physicall drive either bug with installer or with burning tools.
15 Replies
nagito || Knight of Emilia
does grub give you an out of memory error before this? try disab;omg TPM that is known to help with the out of memory error & thus the kernel panic & your motherboard wouldn't happen to be an ASUS one would it?
GremlineQ
GremlineQOP3w ago
It is lenovo laptop
GremlineQ
GremlineQOP3w ago
But then why installing it in vm with secure boot works And copying partitions from vhd to physicall disk work And I don't know if it matters, but the drive to which I wanted to install Bazzite was the second partition (at the end of the drive), which was encrypted by BitLocker.
nagito || Knight of Emilia
the kernel panic is pretty understandable lemme explain
GremlineQ
GremlineQOP3w ago
Isn't it just that system want to mount root but it encounter error?
nagito || Knight of Emilia
as it says it can't mount the root filesystem no & yes grub doesn't mount the rootfs per se the kernel does but it does do something closely related grub's job is to load 2 files the kernel itself & the initrd fi;e the initrd once in memory is mounted as a temporary root filesystem by the kernel it contains a few programs & some drivers just enough to find & prepare the real system if grub doesn't load the initrd the kernel just has nothing to work with & throws this kernel panic it is technically possible to boot without an initrd if the system is simple enough
RoloGH
RoloGH3w ago
I'm having the same issue but on Asus and ventoy. Is there a way to fix it?
nagito || Knight of Emilia
bazzite requires an initrd though as i said disabling TPM helps don't know why
RoloGH
RoloGH3w ago
I'll give it a try then. Thanks
nagito || Knight of Emilia
but people have had this problem before on ASUS
RoloGH
RoloGH3w ago
Weird thing, it says disabled and hasn't been enabled (coming from win10). So I'm guessing ventoy is not playing nice with bazzite
nagito || Knight of Emilia
does the installer not boot or the installed system?
GremlineQ
GremlineQOP3w ago
I installed bazzite in vm, and cloned partitions which were in vhd fille to physical drive and it worked, without any error, but when tried to install on physicall device it gave kernel panic So if you have enough knowledge you could test my bypass method and say if it worked for you
RoloGH
RoloGH2w ago
it installs, but kernel panics after grub

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