Meltdown Update Kernel doesnt boot

Re:Meltdown Update Kernel doesnt boot by gkya on Wednesday January 10, 2018 @06:32PM (#16120139)

Yeah ME is a scary thing also. WRT Linux, well my Xubuntu 16.04 (Xenial) is on 4.10 and no new kernels are available to ma ATM. So if they're going to patch my OS, that's probably going to be a backport to that version, not the latest release integrated to my OS version. I guess that's what caused this bug too, although I admit I only skimmed the conversation linked.

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Re:Meltdown Update Kernel doesnt boot by jlgaddis on Wednesday January 10, 2018 @07:25PM (#16120408)

They've put out updates for 4.4 and 4.13 (HWE) for 16.04, if that helps.

See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SecurityTeam/KnowledgeBase/SpectreAn...

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Re:Meltdown Update Kernel doesnt boot by gkya on Thursday January 11, 2018 @07:04AM (#16123118)

I'm guessing that updates for LTS kernel will come later. I don't know if I can update to 4.13.

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Re:Meltdown Update Kernel doesnt boot by lscotte on Thursday January 11, 2018 @09:58AM (#16124209)

LTS for xenial is 4.4, and patches have already been released for it.

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Re:Meltdown Update Kernel doesnt boot by lscotte on Thursday January 11, 2018 @09:55AM (#16124191)

Note there won't be fixes for 4.10, as it's reached EOL for Ubuntu, so you'll need to move to the 4.13 patched kernel.

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