My desktop machine is unable to boot. I strongly suspect it is related to nvidia driver issues, I would love to get to a console so I can nuke it from the system and see if I can boot again.
This started when I was trying to upgrade my linux drivers by running command: sudo ubuntu-drivers autoinstall
After that, I was unable to login to my account, where I would constantly get directed back to the login screen after entering my password.
After failing to boot, I went to advanced mode and had the option of 4.15.0-96-generic or 4.15.0-91-generic. (see https://i.sstatic.net/4jGbe.jpg)
I booted into recovery mode with 4.15.0-91-generic, and after following another post was able to get the machine to boot with:
sudo apt-get remove --purge "nvidia-*"update-initramfs -u -k 4.15.0-91-genericupdate-grub
This let me login and get to my desktop, but it was running in resolution 1024X768 resolution on my 4k monitor, which wasn't usable. I rebooted, and now I can't get any of the options to work.
Working through them in order:
4.15.0-96-generic (both) fail with: Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount fs on unknown-block(0,0). (see https://i.sstatic.net/6Lqcl.jpg) From what I can tell, when you see this the best option is to try the other kernels listed.
4.15.0-91-generic now gets stuck booting to recover mode at: "[ OK ]: AppArmor initialiation" or "[ OK ] Started Network Time Synchronization". (see https://i.sstatic.net/krjDV.jpg) This was how I was able to run the
update-initramfscommand earlier, and now it's not responding to Alt+Shift+F3 to bring me to console4.15.0-91-generic (recovery mode) lets me decrypt my drives, and then ends in a series of black flashing screens. I suspect this is nvidia related based on what I have read.
Does anyone have any thoughts?
As best as I can tell, I may want to update grub so that it uses 4.15.0-91-generic (currently initrd.img-4-15-0-96-generic, see https://i.sstatic.net/epXlv.jpg) and replacing quiet splash with nomodeset to try to get to a terminal.
I'm partially basing this on another post, but I'm not sure how to do this with kernel problems as I'm dealing with nvidia problems and I really don't want to make this worse.
Thank you!
