Upgrading Ubuntu Desktop to 23.10 Corrupts the VM

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  1. HalilD1

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    Upgrading Ubuntu Desktop from 23.04 to 23.10 results in the corruption of the boot disk and the attached screen appears. Does anyone know a solution to correct this ? I am running the latest version of Parallels Desktop for Mac Pro Edition on a Sonoma M2 Air.
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  2. DM_3

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    Same here. It seems upgrade to 23.04 worked fine, but then it suggested going to 23.10 and after successful completion and reboot I got the same screen. When you go into boot manager it lists one old kernel (from my previous ubuntu) that does not boot and falls back on this screen.
     

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  3. AaronR16

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    I have attempted to get this upgrade to work for months and finally got it to work. Somewhat similar to you, I am using Sonoma on an M1 Mac book Pro. I'm using the arm64 variant so perhaps this might help. Try installing "grub-efi-arm64" in 23.04 if not already installed.

    I wondered about an EFI boot error I had seen for some time but ignored because everything otherwise seemed to be working fine, but I felt perhaps it was relevant to this issue. I discovered that 'grub-efi-arm64' was not installed in 23.04 - after installing and rebooting I no longer saw the EFI boot error

    I tried another upgrade to 23.10, and this time, it worked and booted. (and has booted multiple times since - I had to check :)
     
  4. jhbarker

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    i have this problem too. This has happened previously when I try to upgrade by Ubuntu install . .
     
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  5. HarriL3

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    Thank you, @AaronR16; by installing "grub-efi-arm64," I solved my problem with 23.04 -> 23.10 and finally got 24.04 working.
     
  6. FredericM5

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    I have the same issue after having done an in-place upgrade from 22.04 to 24.04
    And I can't get out of this BIOS screen, any boot option I try goes back to this screen.
    Can we fix this? Luckily I have taken a snapshot before upgrading so I can revert but would not if the fix is easy enough
    Parallels v19.4.1 (the latest one) on Apple MacBook Pro M3 Max
     
  7. joka

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    Same here. Tried to upgrade 22.04 to 24.04 and got the BIOS screen which can not be avoided. How to get out of it and start the ubuntu ?
     
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  8. ChrisParallel

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    I got the same problem.

    How can the problem be fixed? Repair EFI? How? Use a Ubuntu install DVD? What to do? @support
    @HarriL3 is installing "grub-efi-arm64 a solution for this problem? And if, how can it be installed when the system does not boot at all?
     
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  9. ChrisParallel

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    The support investigated about this issue and provieded a fix in
    ParallelsDesktop-20.1.0-55732 .
    Does it work for you?
    Unfortunately, its not working for my Ubuntu, it still does not boot.
     
  10. HarriL3

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    FWIW, I usually take a snapshot before starting to upgrade the guest OS. That was also the case with Ubuntu 23.04 -> 23.10. So, by first installing "grub-efi-arm64 " on 23.04, I solved my problem with 23.04 -> 23.10 and finally got 24.04 working, which meant that I had to first roll back by snapshot of 23.04.

    FTR, the original solution poster was @AaronR16.
     
  11. Robertik

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    This kills it for me when upgrading from 24.04 (fresh install) to 24.10. The upgrade stops and the system is left in an unstable stable state not correctly booting any longer.

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