I have an Acer Aspire 5 (Model # A515-43-R19L), with an AMD Ryzen 3 3200u CPU. I'm trying to set it up with Linux.
I installed Xubuntu 19.10 without issue. It was running perfectly. I was able to save files, shutdown and restart without issue- until I updated the system. These are the security updates. After this, I was no longer able to fully boot up the system.
Subsequent reboots give me errors like this:
I've transcribed it below:
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[ 0.933356] pci 0000:00:00.2: AMD-Vi: Unable to write to IOMMU perf counter.
/dev/nvme0n1p2 contains a file system with errors, check forced.
Inode 4325409 seems to contain garbage.
/dev/nvme0n1p2: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY.
(i.e., without -a or -p options)
fsck excited with status code 4
The root filesystem on /dev/nvme0n1p2 requires a manual fsck
BusyBox v1.27.2 (Ubuntu 1:1.27.2-2ubuntu3.2) built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.
(initramfs) _
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I ran fsck manually after this, which said the system was "clean".
I restarted and again I
have the system unable to boot and telling me that all CPU cores are in
"soft lockup".
So I tried installing Xubuntu 18.04 instead, which is a Long Term Release. But the pattern is the same- It installs and runs fine, but after installing the subsequent Security Updates it gives me the errors above.
I've also tried other Linux distros and they either have the same or other issues.
I thought about updating the BIOS/firmware, but I see this model can't flash the BIOS from a flash drive alone and its copy of Windows doesn't exist any more so I can execute the BIOS update (which may not even solve the issue anyway) via Windows.
The system is UEFI only. I have turned off Fast boot and Secure boot. SATA is in AHCI mode.
The installed Linux system does show up in the BIOS/firmware menu.
I am grateful for any help on this.
