Bluefin 41 - Kernel Panic during boot

General
1

My HP Spectre 13.5 2022 kernel panics on boot, after updating to Bluefin 41, rolling back to Bluefin 40 boots as normal. The odd thing is, sometimes it does boot, but I haven’t been able to reproduce it accurately.
It seems to kernel panic after mounting /boot/efi.

I can reproduce the issue on:
Version 41.20241112.1
Version 41.20241114.1

2

Can you please add rpm-ostree status to help identify the issue?

3

Sure,

❯ rpm-ostree status
State: idle
AutomaticUpdates: stage; rpm-ostreed-automatic.timer: no runs since boot
Deployments:
  ostree-image-signed:docker://ghcr.io/ublue-os/bluefin-dx:stable
                   Digest: sha256:9b4558a05315a855dffd3999c0693725a80754fa41b83ba536968b3e0e3afd5d
                  Version: 41.20241112.1 (2024-11-12T21:11:21Z)
                     Diff: 2149 upgraded, 5 downgraded, 75 removed, 65 added
          LayeredPackages: freerdp grubby intel-gpu-tools rEFInd waydroid

● ostree-image-signed:docker://ghcr.io/ublue-os/bluefin-dx:gts
                   Digest: sha256:d25dbf146f147914caf623ea2c98a4263f3f9ae8b3223fab9d973a186e189289
                  Version: 40.20241109.0 (2024-11-10T05:42:28Z)
          LayeredPackages: freerdp grubby intel-gpu-tools rEFInd waydroid

I’m not on the main branch of course because I can’t boot from it, and all Bluefin 41 images have this issue, not just from the stable branch, I’ve tried stable, stable-daily and latest.
Previously I was on stable-daily on 40 and also stable on 40 and both were fine.

I’ll see if I can reproduce the issue on Fedora 41 and Silverblue 41 too.

4

Just a thought, but why is refind layered here? Isn’t the default Bluefin bootloader Grub? Installing both Grub and refind could cause them to conflict…

5

They don’t conflict, rEFInd loads GRUB (which is usually not shown anyway)
I prefer rEFInd because it looks better and works with touchscreens

6

This is what someone on Discord said a couple of days ago so take it with a grain of salt because I can’t find anything confirming this in a quick search, but the rEFInd RPM is supposedly broken for Fedora 41.

7

If refined is your default bootloader right now, I would try not using it.

8

I’ve uninstalled rEFInd, it still won’t boot on Bluefin 41.

❯ rpm-ostree status
State: idle
AutomaticUpdates: stage; rpm-ostreed-automatic.timer: no runs since boot
Deployments:
  ostree-image-signed:docker://ghcr.io/ublue-os/bluefin-dx:stable
                   Digest: sha256:9b4558a05315a855dffd3999c0693725a80754fa41b83ba536968b3e0e3afd5d
                  Version: 41.20241112.1 (2024-11-12T21:11:21Z)
                     Diff: 2146 upgraded, 5 downgraded, 75 removed, 65 added
          LayeredPackages: freerdp grubby intel-gpu-tools waydroid

● ostree-image-signed:docker://ghcr.io/ublue-os/bluefin-dx:gts
                   Digest: sha256:d25dbf146f147914caf623ea2c98a4263f3f9ae8b3223fab9d973a186e189289
                  Version: 40.20241109.0 (2024-11-10T05:42:28Z)
          LayeredPackages: freerdp grubby intel-gpu-tools waydroid