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I was trying to fix a 'overlayfs: missing 'lowerdir'' issue very similar to Boot problem after update - missing 'lowerdir'.

I removed these packages:

linux-aws - Linux kernel for Amazon Web Services (AWS) systems
linux-azure-4.15 - Linux kernel for Microsoft Azure Cloud systems
linux-dell300x - Linux kernel for Dell 300x platforms
linux-gcp-4.15 - Linux kernel for Google Cloud Platform (GCP) systems
linux-oracle - Linux kernel for Oracle Cloud systems

and cleaned up the files but then after a reboot, I received this message:

error: kernel doesn't support EFI handover
error: your need to load the kernel first

Please help, thank you.

Info

When I call 'dkpg -l | grep 'linux-image*' I get:

ii  linux-image-4.15.0-1129-kvm            4.15.0-1129.134                                 amd64        Linux kernel image for version 4.15.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
ii  linux-image-4.15.0-173-generic         4.15.0-173.182                                  amd64        Signed kernel image generic
ii  linux-image-4.15.0-191-generic         4.15.0-191.202                                  amd64        Signed kernel image generic
ii  linux-image-4.15.0-197-generic         4.15.0-197.208                                  amd64        Signed kernel image generic
ii  linux-image-extra-virtual              4.15.0.197.182                                  amd64        Extra drivers for Virtual Linux kernel image
ii  linux-image-generic                    4.15.0.197.182                                  amd64        Generic Linux kernel image
ii  linux-image-kvm                        4.15.0.1129.122                                 amd64        Linux kernel image for virtual systems.
ii  linux-image-virtual                    4.15.0.197.182                                  amd64        Virtual Linux kernel image
Jackson Li
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  • "I removed some packages I thought were unnecessary" What were they? – Organic Marble Nov 24 '22 at 22:47
  • @OrganicMarble Hi, I edited my original post to include what I removed. I removed linux-image-4.15.0-1129-kvm as well but then I added it back. – Jackson Li Nov 24 '22 at 23:55
  • Alright so I managed to solve the "error: kernel doesn't support EFI handover error: your need to load the kernel first" I just removed the kvm package since my system was trying to boot from kvm, still having the "overlayfs: missing 'lowerdir' issue however. – Jackson Li Nov 25 '22 at 00:04

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