How do you deal with Linux kernels on 26.04 (TPM-backed FDE)?

That’s just the first GRUB menu. Select run mode, press Enter and then immediately press Esc again to get to the second menu and select “Fallback on failed update”:

I hope the comment is still readable enough.

I have just tested this on my own tinker toy VM, which pretty much mirrors your setup, I believe. It still booted the 7.0.0-22 kernel, though. I don’t quite know why, because:

$ snap list --all pc-kernel 
Name       Version      Rev   Tracking      Publisher   Notes
pc-kernel  7.0.0-14.14  3390  26.04/stable  canonical✓  kernel,disabled
pc-kernel  7.0.0-22.22  3492  26.04/stable  canonical✓  kernel

Perhaps because it’s disabled? But I’d have thought that’s the normal status of previous (fallback) versions of Snaps. Maybe GRUB/<boot magic> doesn’t believe me that the update failed, because there is no actual error to recover from?

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