Feverishly pounding upon a keyboard Klang typed:
<snip>
> in a console the system froze with a kernel panic indication.
>
> I did a soft reboot using the computer reset button into Mint and got the
> same frozen kernel panic warning.
<snip>
> live distro and then froze with the same kernel panic message whilst
> trying to boot.
>
> Any thoughts please ...maybe HDD or motherboard ...thanks in advance.

LiveCD - maybe the HDD if the LiveCD is trying to set up a ramdisk on
it but unlikely. Other hardware? Perhaps. But, how are we to correctly
help since you've not posted that "same" kernel panic message of three
times for our knowledge?

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For Herod had laid hold on John, and bound him, and put him in
prison for Herodias' sake, his brother Philip's wife.
-- Matthew 14:3