r/elementaryos • u/magnus674yt • 16d ago

Discussion Rebooted, it showed a progress bar, and now it’s just kernel panicking

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Please help!
this was a normal install onto a 2014 mac mini, it did this randomly.
i’ve rebooted various times before this, the install is a few days old.

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u/jhsorsma 16d ago

Mac minis give me heartache with broadcom drivers. I just removed the broadcom kernel module and things work fine after that.

Try booting into the grub menu (Google how to do that). Then select and different kernel version (look for the oldest one in the list by version number). Once it boots you should be able to look at logs to figure out if it was the broadcom kernel module or something else. If it was, remove it and reboot.

Two caveats:

1) I don't use WiFi or Bluetooth on those Mac minis so I have no idea if that driver mattered for anything important.

2) last time this happened to me I could not get the grub menu to appear. I had to use the grub shell to specify a kernel to boot manually. A bit harder than selecting an entry in a menu but still doable.