On 4/14/23 16:07, Acid Bong wrote: >> Thorsten >> why do you pass pci=nomsi > It's a workaround for another issue i've been facing for about 2 or 3 > years, since when I first tried out Linux (started with loading Kubuntu > and Mint live images). Without that workaround Kubuntu didn't boot for > me - on kernel 5.8 it only reached the graphic installer part, but hung > after language selection menu, on 5.4 and 5.11 - didn't even reach the > graphic session. With Mint it was more severe - the screen was flooded > with PCIe errors, like so: > > Apr 10 18:47:08 bong last message buffered 3 times > Apr 10 18:47:08 bong kernel: pcieport 0000:00:1c.5: device [8086:9d15] error status/mask Hardware issue? Or is this another kernel issue? If it is the latter, file separate report (see Documentation/admin-guide/reporting-issues.rst for how to report kernel issues). -- An old man doll... just what I always wanted! - Clara