Interestingly 5.9.10-050910-generic (from the mainline kernel ppa that was mentioned earlier) is booting and running stably.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1904054 Title: kernel 5.8 general protection fault at boot Status in linux package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Ubuntu kernel version 5.8.0-28 (as well as the previous 5.8.0-26) crashes at boot with many general protection faults, on my Intel NUC 10. Ubuntu kernel version 5.4.0-52 did not exhibit this problem. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.10 Package: linux-image-5.8.0-28-generic 5.8.0-28.30 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-52.57-generic 5.4.65 Uname: Linux 5.4.0-52-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zavl icp zcommon znvpair wl ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu50.1 Architecture: amd64 AudioDevicesInUse: USER PID ACCESS COMMAND /dev/snd/controlC0: benp 2912 F.... pulseaudio /dev/snd/controlC1: benp 2912 F.... pulseaudio CasperMD5CheckResult: skip CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME Date: Thu Nov 12 11:51:07 2020 InstallationDate: Installed on 2020-10-08 (35 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Release amd64 (20200731) MachineType: Intel(R) Client Systems NUC10i7FNH ProcEnviron: TERM=xterm-256color PATH=(custom, no user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcFB: 0 i915drmfb ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-5.4.0-52-generic root=/dev/mapper/vgubuntu-root ro quiet splash crashkernel=512M-:192M RelatedPackageVersions: linux-restricted-modules-5.4.0-52-generic N/A linux-backports-modules-5.4.0-52-generic N/A linux-firmware 1.190.1 SourcePackage: linux UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to groovy on 2020-10-28 (15 days ago) dmi.bios.date: 08/17/2020 dmi.bios.vendor: Intel Corp. dmi.bios.version: FNCML357.0045.2020.0817.1709 dmi.board.asset.tag: Default string dmi.board.name: NUC10i7FNB dmi.board.vendor: Intel Corporation dmi.board.version: K61360-302 dmi.chassis.asset.tag: Default string dmi.chassis.type: 35 dmi.chassis.vendor: Intel Corporation dmi.chassis.version: 2.0 dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnIntelCorp.:bvrFNCML357.0045.2020.0817.1709:bd08/17/2020:svnIntel(R)ClientSystems:pnNUC10i7FNH:pvrK61081-302:rvnIntelCorporation:rnNUC10i7FNB:rvrK61360-302:cvnIntelCorporation:ct35:cvr2.0: dmi.product.family: FN dmi.product.name: NUC10i7FNH dmi.product.sku: BXNUC10i7FNH dmi.product.version: K61081-302 dmi.sys.vendor: Intel(R) Client Systems To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1904054/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp