Booting was fine. I used GRUB and since I was single booting and there were no issues. The only problem I did have that occasionally when starting or restarting the computer the boot would fail and give me an error about an APIC clock synchronization error.

I looked into what APIC was and found that it stood for ‘Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller’ and has to do with handling and prioritizing system requests. Further research on my hardware also hinted at that APIC had to do with managing and properly utilizing both of my processor cores. The error message told me that I could run the computer without APIC enabled, but I really didn’t want to do this unless I absolutely had to.

Typically I could get around the problem by just restarting the machine manually until it would boot without kernel panicking. I was hoping that they would address this issue with an update and since I haven’t seen it in a while I think they have.

Overall booting was no big deal after the APIC issue was resolved.