Luka: I only get kernel panics during the boot.
Sometimes the system will stop during the boot while the Ubuntu process screen is being displayed. I'm not sure if that is a "panic" - but usually I get a screenfull of messages when the problem occurs prior to the Ubuntu process screen.
I also see the problem if I do a "restart" of the system - like after updates have been applied.
My system has been running all night using bittorrent without a problem - and I'm typing this on it now.
Thanks for your suggestions regarding the kernel.
For completeness I should say that the changes I made to my bios settings seem not to be permanent:
Booting from USB - seemed to be lost - as did automatically starting after a power failure. I guess this is unrelated.
Luka: I only get kernel panics during the boot.
Sometimes the system will stop during the boot while the Ubuntu process screen is being displayed. I'm not sure if that is a "panic" - but usually I get a screenfull of messages when the problem occurs prior to the Ubuntu process screen.
I also see the problem if I do a "restart" of the system - like after updates have been applied.
My system has been running all night using bittorrent without a problem - and I'm typing this on it now.
Thanks for your suggestions regarding the kernel.
For completeness I should say that the changes I made to my bios settings seem not to be permanent:
Booting from USB - seemed to be lost - as did automatically starting after a power failure. I guess this is unrelated.
My system isn't in a box yet.