I have five Linux distros insalled and they are:

/dev/sda3 PCLinuxOS, /dev/sda4 Mageia 5, /dev/sda5 openSUSE 42.1, /dev/sda6 LinuxMint 17.3 and lastly /div/sda7 Manjaro Linux.

I am having issues with Mageia and openSUSE which may cause me to reinstall them and I would like to avoid a kernel panic with Manjaro if possible?

/dev/sda1 Fat32 /boot/efi 143MiB is boot. At one point Fat 32 was Fat 16. Before this particular problem I tried to fix Grub by the following:

"sudo pacman -S grub"
"sudo grub-install /dev/sda"
"sudo grub-update"

The last line may have been; "sudo update-grub", in either case what had worked then did not work and I am hesitant to try it again.


In the Manjaro Grub Menu. it is set up as follows:

Manjaro Linux
Advanced Options for Manjaro

PCLinuxOS (on /dev/sda3)
Advanced Options for PCLinuxOS (on /dev/sda3)

Mageia 5 (on /dev/sda4)
Advaned Options for Mageia 5 (on dev/sda4)

LinuxMint 17.3 (on dev/sda6)
Advanced Option for LinuxMint 17.3 (on dev/sda6)


That was it, no mention of openSuUe (on dev/sda5) I can not access openSUSE nor can access Mageia. Curiosity, screwed me over, when I messed with the 'recovery mode' on the 'Advanced options for Mageia.5


Mageia’s problem could be due to my messing with the recovery mode, in the Advanced Options for Mageia?

As for openSUSE, it could be when I change its bfrts to a ext4, or when I changed the Fat 16 to Fat 32 or it could be because it had ‘msftdata’ in its line on gparted?

OpenSUSE, has is ‘btrfs’ and perhaps I should return the Fat 32 to Fat 16, and see what that move wrote?

looks like you did not explain your issue at all, just what did you try to solve it.
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I like using Manjaro and want it to be part of any multi-boot/Linux I have on my PC. Presently, if I add a distro after Manjaro, that new one takes precedence over Manjaro and when I try to boot into Manjaro, I am faced with 'kernel panic'.

If I want to have other distros besides Manjaro, then manjaro has to be the last distro installed. Therein lies the problem. Making it so, whether any new distros are install post Manjaro or I use one of a previous distro partitions, to install a new new one in its place, that nether of them causes kernel panic with Manjaro.

I will most likely add one or two additional distro before lastly installing Manjaro.

/dev/sda1 Fat32 /boot/efi

/dev/sda2 Swap

/dev/sda 3,4,5 & 6 are current Linux distros installed. With about 290 GiB free space usable. I want to bne able to boot into Mnajaro irregardless of whether there are disros before or after it.

you do not need to install lastly, just modify the boot menu. If I understood it well. It must not depend on the order of installation, but the order of the menu entries.
I still do not understand how it is related to kernel panic and what is the reason of that.

I went ahead and installed Manjaro, if I were to install another distro, I could most likely boot into any other distros, but if I tried to boot into Manjaro, I'd get a screen which at the bottom would read 'Kernel Panic' I want to avoid this now and in the future but I do not know how?