Have been unable to capture a stack trace using 'aws get-console-
output'. Enabled kdump and was unable to replicate the failed boot,
which makes this feel like a race condition with NVME.

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Title:
  Bionic/linux-aws Boot failure downgrading from Bionic/linux-aws-5.4 on
  r5.metal

Status in linux-aws package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  When creating an r5.metal instance on AWS, the default kernel is
  bionic/linux-aws-5.4(5.4.0-1056-aws), when changing to bionic/linux-
  aws(4.15.0-1113-aws) the machine fails to boot 4.15 kernel.

  If I remove these patches the instance correctly boots the 4.15 kernel

  https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/kernel-
  team/2021-September/123963.html

  But after successfully updating to the 4.15 without those patches
  applied, I can then upgrade to a test kernel with the above patches
  included, and the instance will boot properly.

  This problem only appears on metal instances, which uses NVME instead
  of XVDA devices.

  AWS instances also use the 'discard' mount option with ext4, thought
  maybe there could be a race condition between ext4 discard and journal
  flush.  Removed 'discard' mount and rebooted 5.4 kernel prior to 4.15
  kernel installation, but still wouldn't boot.

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