The live-CD issue makes sense... thanks.

I reinstalled 5.4 per your suggestion. I can now boot into 5.4 again in 
my daily-use partition through the Advanced grub menu.
Thank you!

Will I be notified when a fix is released in 5.8? I've disabled 
automatic updates for now.

    ... Duane


On 2/3/21 4:17 AM, Kleber Sacilotto de Souza wrote:
> Hi Duane,
>
> Regarding your comments:
>
> 5) Ubuntu 20.04 runs fine when running directly from USB flashdrive. This is 
> really wierd.
> 6) Occurs immediately after a fresh installation of 20.04 in any partition. 
> Verified sha256sums.
>
> I believe the installer will update some packages, including the kernel,
> when you do the installation on the system. This would explain the
> difference between running the live-cd and the installed system.
>
> If after the automatic update to 5.8 your 5.4 kernels are not available
> anymore for booting, you can try installing the meta package "linux-
> generic" which would install the latest 5.4 kernel.
>

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