upgrading kernel in VMware Virtual machine of dapper kills the VM

[Ben Collins]

On Wed, 2005-12-07 at 15:30 -0500, matt nicholson wrote:
> On Dec 7, 2005, at 3:20 PM, matt nicholson wrote:
> 
> >
> > On Dec 7, 2005, at 2:10 PM, Ben Collins wrote:
> >
> >> On Wed, 2005-12-07 at 12:50 -0500, matt nicholson wrote:
> >>> Not sure which mailing list to post this to so going to both users 
> >>> and
> >>> devel.
> >>>
> >>> I have dapper running in a VM on VMware 5.5, breezy as a host. All of
> >>> the recent Dapper upgrades have gone quite nice thus far, with one
> >>> exception. When performing the upgrade of linux-image-386(2.6.12.16 
> >>> to
> >>> 2.6.15.4) and linux-restricted-modules-386(2.6.12.16 to 2.6.15.4), 
> >>> the
> >>> VM dies. By this i mean that, upon reboot, Grub comes up, the system
> >>> starts to boot (the new "handdrawn" usplash comes up), and it gets as
> >>> far a "Mounting the root file system" After a few seconds here, I get
> >>> dropped to a console saying:
> >>>   Alert! /dev/sda1/ does not exist. Dropping you to a shell!
> >>
> >> Could you tell me the actual version of the linux-image itself
> >> (linux-image-2.6.15-6-386 or -7-386, most likely).
> >>
> > Working: linux-image-2.6.12-9-386
> > Failing linux-image-2.6.15-7-386

Expected. We added the BusLogic device table in -8 or -9, can't recall.

> >> Also, try adding BusLogic to initramfs module list and run
> >> "update-initramfs -u -k 2.6.15-7-386"
> >>
> > do this after a the new kernel is installed, before reboot?
> > Will try
> >>
> 
> Tried this. No luck. Exact same situation.

Ok, send me lspci and dmesg output please (working kernel).

> >> You may also want to try and see if switching vmware to use the IDE 
> >> disk
> >> simulation instead of the SCSI disk works too.
> >>
> > Will also try
> >
> 
> You cannot change from SCSI -> IDE without creating a new disk. so this 
> wouldn't work, unless a reinstall was done.

Are you sure? Even if you power off the virtual machine, it still wont
let you change it?

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   Ben Collins <ben.collins at ubuntu.com>
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