Hi,

I have a Dell Inspiron 15 5577 laptop (i7-7700hq, GTX-1050m, 8gb, 128GB SSD, 1TB HDD) dual-booting with Win10, Kali and ubuntu.

The existing kali installation was a clean install from a live USB. (i think the current version, in any event it had kernel 4.15.0).
I initially had some problems getting that booting: boot-time messages came up including:

Code:
tpm_crb MSFT0101:00: [Firmware bug]: ACPI region does not cover the entire command/response buffer. [mem 0xfed40000-0xfed4087f flags 0x200] vs fed40080 f80
tpm_crb MSFT0101:00: [Firmware bug]: ACPI region does not cover the entire command/response buffer. [mem 0xfed40000-0xfed4087f flags 0x200] vs fed40080 f80
platform regulatory.0: firmware: failed to load regulatory.db (-2)
firmware_class: see https://wiki.debian.org/Firmware for information about missing firmware
dell_smbios: No dell-smbios drivers are loaded
dell_smbios: No dell-smbios drivers are loaded
But then I found that adding 'nomodeset' to the boot parameters would allow kali to boot, so saw no need to troubleshoot further.

A Few days ago, i did 'apt update' then 'apt fill-upgrade', which installed / upgraded over 1200 packages.

After that upgrade, I could not boot (either into the new 4.17.0 kernel, or to the previous 4.15.0 kernel.). only the 'recovery mode' options will work.

If i try to boot into the old (4.15.0) multiuser environment i get the same error messages, If i try the new kernel (with no nodes), i just get:

Code:
tpm_crb MSFT0101:00: [Firmware bug]: ACPI region does not cover the entire command/response buffer. [mem 0xfed40000-0xfed4087f flags 0x200] vs fed40080 f80
tpm_crb MSFT0101:00: [Firmware bug]: ACPI region does not cover the entire command/response buffer. [mem 0xfed40000-0xfed4087f flags 0x200] vs fed40080 f80
In both cases, the machine freezes at this point.


I have tried re-installing from the live usb, and the doing 'apt update' and 'apt upgrade' (rather than a full-updrade) but the result is the same.

Where do I start fixing this?