upgrading kernel in VMware Virtual machine of dapper kills the VM

[matt nicholson]

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
>
>> 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.

>> 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.

> Thanks
>> -- 
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>>    Developer
>>    Ubuntu Linux
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