Yes, UEFI is fine for me too I was simply peeved that the situation existed, not peeved at having to use UEFI. Thanks for letting me know about this Legacy Boot issue, I'll take note of it. I kinda gave up on it 'cause I couldn't find a solution. I managed to get Mint installed smoothly, Studio 18.10 was erroneous for me, Kubuntu didn't install. I couldn't shut down, reboot or suspend, and some installations didn't start, it was really painful. UEFI installation was cool with me (atleast I could install), though ACPI errors in live mode brought hell to me everytime. I then chose to take careful note of this discovery in case someone else reported kernel panics on a new CPU here.īut I thought I was dumb and could have made some stupid mistake and ignored it. Kernel 4.15 just would not boot on an i9 9900K in CSM mode, only in UEFI mode. I made a deliberate attempt to recreate the problem to make sure I hadn't done something stupid. It appears that kernel 4.15 in the live media simply does not like 9th gen CPUs if booted in CSM or compatibility mode it will kernel panic left, right and centre, yet the same live media boots fine and installs perfectly if you override the boot sequence and choose to boot the live media in UEFI mode, resulting in a UEFI installation.

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