Steve: Another possible system affected where disabling microcode loading appears to have fixed it. I'll leave it to you to decide whether that is a duplicate of this issue though:
LP: #1829402 "Purple screen hangup during boot" Tom and myself have spent some considerable time with the affected user on IRC testing permutations so I'm confident it is the same issue. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1829620 Title: intel-microcode on ASUS makes kernel stuck during loading initramfs on bionic-updates, bionic-security To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/intel-microcode/+bug/1829620/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs