On boot getting error: file '/boot/vmlinuz-5.10-x86_64' not found. Fallbacks not working either

[Aragorn]

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@EmptyT

On boot getting

error: file '/boot/vmlinuz-5.10-x86_64' not found`
error: you need to load the kernel first.

Been getting this error after updating the system with the GUI.

That is always the result of an interrupted update process. Please see the post below for how to recover from that.

Lenovo T440s problems

Welcome to the forum! Usually this is the result of an incomplete/interrupted update procedure. During the update process, the old kernel images are removed, and only at the end of the update process are the new kernel images written to /boot and is the boot loader updated. The other possibility, if you have not interrupted the update procedure, is that the internal drive has begun failing. Whether it’s an HDD or an SSD, this sort of thing does happen. But given the error message, I suspec…