Microsoft disables Spectre mitigations as Intel’s patches cause instability
I lost many hours over this last week. The system was unable to boot and finally a thread on reddit came to the rescue ( <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;techsupport&#x2F;comments&#x2F;7sbihd&#x2F;howto_fix_inaccessible_boot_device_caused_by&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;techsupport&#x2F;comments&#x2F;7sbihd&#x2F;howto_f...</a> ).<p>This actually made the system boot but there are some leftovers being installed on first boot that I&#x27;ve been unable to disable that also causes the system to be unable to boot.<p>So now, the machine is running but as soon as it is restarted we have to re-image the disk, go through the process of manually removing patches, and then pray that we don&#x27;t have a power shortage as we&#x27;d have to do everything yet again on next boot.<p>I&#x27;m not convinced that this patch will solve the issue either, because if this updates requires a reboot the fix won&#x27;t be installed if we can&#x27;t boot. I might try to install this update from the recovery console see if that works.<p>Quite frustrating.