Meltdown – Spectre - Was: kernel 4.4.0-108 / 16.04 LTS does not boot anymore

[C de-Avillez]

On Fri, 12 Jan 2018 13:43:42 -0800
NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> On 01/12/2018 08:04 AM, robert rottermann wrote:
> > On 12.01.2018 13:53, Gilles Gravier wrote:  
> >> A quick question to the OP... Is the machine an AMD machine (not
> >> AMD64, I mean AMD processor versus Intel)?  
> > 
> > it is a: Intel® Core™ i5-2500 CPU @ 3.30GHz × 4
> > 
> > 
> >   
> 
> You also update your Intel microcode per:
> https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3531-1/
> https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2017/CVE-2017-5715.html
> 
> 

Which seems to have introduced a regression on some hardware:

https://launchpad.net/bugs/1742933

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