Linux image update (linux-headers-4.15.0-106) made Ubuntu 18.04 LTS unbootable
Recently there was an update on the Linux image update from Livepatch, and requires restart. But after restart, I cannot boot my Ubuntu at all. My computer is dual boot with both Ubuntu and Windows, and I can open Grub, but when I select Ubuntu, my computer is stuck at Grub background.
I do have 3 other versions (101, 99, 65) of images able to be used, and I can use the older versions. However, when I use version 101 once and then restart, I cannot use version 101 anymore. Now I am at version 65, and have no plans to restart at all. When I select the latest corrupted version, the Grub screen is stuck at "Loading Linux 4.15.0-106-generic" and "Loading initial ramdisk ..."
I inspected the /boot, and saw that the 3 images (initrd.
```
samuraiwarm@
total 303380
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Jun 10 18:23 .
drwxr-xr-x 29 root root 4096 Jun 10 17:02 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 217449 May 11 16:08 config-
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 217473 Jun 4 17:16 config-
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 217362 Sep 17 2019 config-
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 217458 Apr 23 01:31 config-
drwx------ 5 root root 4096 Jan 1 1970 efi
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Jun 10 18:37 grub
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 64862602 Jun 10 17:03 initrd.
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 64877796 Jun 10 17:03 initrd.
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 64780759 May 7 16:38 initrd.
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 64853590 Jun 10 18:23 initrd.
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 182704 Jan 28 2016 memtest86+.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 184380 Jan 28 2016 memtest86+.elf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 184840 Jan 28 2016 memtest86+
-rw------- 1 root root 4072495 May 11 16:08 System.
-rw------- 1 root root 4073353 Jun 4 17:16 System.
-rw------- 1 root root 4064177 Sep 17 2019 System.
-rw------- 1 root root 4071696 Apr 23 01:31 System.
-rw------- 1 root root 8380064 May 11 16:14 vmlinuz-
-rw------- 1 root root 8380064 Jun 4 17:29 vmlinuz-
-rw------- 1 root root 8359576 Sep 17 2019 vmlinuz-
-rw------- 1 root root 8380056 Apr 23 01:32 vmlinuz-
```
And here is an update log right before the unbootable problem in `/var/log/
```
Start-Date: 2020-06-10 17:02:10
Commandline: aptdaemon role='role-
Install: linux-headers-
Upgrade: libjpeg-
End-Date: 2020-06-10 17:03:25
```
Summary - there are 2 major issues; initrd.
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