Been stuck on kernel 5.15.0-48 now for half a year or so unable to install later ones, because the later ones refuse to boot with the encrypted root filesystem chosen during installation. No prompt appears to enter the password. Black screen and nothing.
Is there some way to fix this issue or am I just frozen forever on this kernel version on Linux Mint 20.3?
I want to move a system (all systems I am using are Ubuntu 16.04 based) from an unencrypted partition to a luks encrypted one (on the same disk). To this end, I created a LUKS encrypted logical v...
About 2-3 months ago someone has this problem on Fedora, it was fixed for them after a recent 6.1.x kernel upgrade so it might be worth trying to install the mainline kernel?
Since this installing a more recent kernel fixed the issue for a person running Fedora with an encrypted drive, it sure is worth a try to see if it will fix your issue. If it doesn't you have tried it and you can uninstall it again, if it does you problem will be have been solved you can't lose either way.
Also if you want official support you can always also still try the HWE kernel which is officially supported and you could try that one as well if you wanted something supported.
I see the linux-hwe-generic package as part of the kernels you can install in Ubuntu. What is hardware enablement (HWE)?
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The solution? Offering different kernels for different users. Therefore Ubuntu will offer at least two kernels: the General Availability (GA) kernel, i.e. the most stable kernel, which does not get updated to point releases; and the Hardware Enablement (HWE) kernel, i.e. the most recent kernel released. This is why you are seeing both the linux-generic and the linux-generic-hwe packages.