Public bug reported: GigaByte Mobo, AMD with 8 cores. PC.
This is difficult to describe fully. What happened was I could not get Ubuntu 24.04 to 24.10 to 25.04 upgrade path to work starting last November '24. Multiple attempts ended with some sort of error each time. I keep full backups by cloning so I was always able to just install my clone, update the changed files and get back to normal. Recently, two auto-updates caused the Red-Screen-Of-Death (RSOD) to show up during booting to kernel 6.14.0-24 and then to 6.14.0-27 (was at 6.11.0-29 before each update which occurred at different times). Asked for help at askubuntu but never got an answer that worked to allow booting. So I burned a live 25.04 thumb drive and just installed a new copy of Ubuntu. However, this is where the bug report comes in. Possible BUG: With 25.04 running and booting alone just fine, if I attached the cloned HDD with the RSOD in order to copy my files, despite which HDD I told BIOS to boot from, instead of booting I get a "No boot drive found" error message just after the BIOS splash screen. This tells me that the RSOD is somehow overriding the BIOS settings because there WAS a bootable drive. In fact both of them booted alone, and the drive with the 6.14.0-27 drive would display GRUB and I could boot to 6.11.0-29 if I chose that option. I was attaching both drives because I wanted to copy my files to the new installed 25.04 OS drive. Eventually I used my cloning tool attached to a USB port and was able to copy everything in HOME to the upgraded 25.04. See this askubutu link for pics and further info: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1554324/auto-update-will-not-boot-goes- to-the-red-screen-of-death ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 25.04 Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:25.04.18 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 6.14.0-28.28-generic 6.14.8 Uname: Linux 6.14.0-28-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.32.0-0ubuntu5.3 Architecture: amd64 CasperMD5CheckResult: pass CrashDB: ubuntu CurrentDesktop: MATE Date: Sun Aug 24 11:28:13 2025 InstallationDate: Installed on 2025-08-18 (7 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 25.04 "Plucky Puffin" - Release amd64 (20250415.3) PackageArchitecture: all ProcEnviron: LANG=en_US.UTF-8 PATH=(custom, no user) SHELL=/bin/bash TERM=xterm-256color XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> SourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader Symptom: dist-upgrade UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) ** Affects: ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: amd64 apport-bug dist-upgrade plucky -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2121320 Title: Upgrades prevent booting To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-release-upgrader/+bug/2121320/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
