[HKMk23]

So, I have an older HP laptop that was drowning in MS Win7 and to try to squeeze more life out of it I wiped it and brought it back to life as a Linux machine on Ubuntu 20, and whatever kernel was current — 5 point something.

All was well until there was a kernel update.

After the update all I could get was a black screen, so I had to interrupt the boot and tell it to use to older version of the kernel, and then it would be fine.

A few weeks later, there was another little update, and then everything was fine, and I could boot to the current kernel, once again.

Happiness.

Then that same sequence happened again, and this time I tried to do more to enable the machine to run with the newest kernel, and botched something up to where it’s not able to boot at all. So, it’s an experimental thing I’m getting a Linux education out of, but not otherwise very useful, at the moment.

[Jamestown1630]

Well, someone will probably come along who understands this and may help.

All I know is that we’ve never had a problem. We have ‘Mint’ on both the desktop and laptop. And again - we don’t do much that’s very complicated.

[Zhang Fei]

[So, I have an older HP laptop that was drowning in MS Win7]

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If it takes a SATA drive, YMMV, but you may be able to keep it functional with an SSD drive by reinstalliing Win 7. 5⁰0gb typically costs ~$50. My 14 year old desktop went from booting in 5 minutes before the switch down to 30 seconds afterwards.