upgrading kernel in VMware Virtual machine of dapper kills the VM

[Russell Cook]

Vmware runs for me, but the networking is broken so I can't update the
guest OS any more. Will try when I next upgrade the host OS.


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!
> 
> however, i do not get dropped to a shell and the VM just sits there, 
> dead.
> 
> Luckily I make snap shots for just this purpose and can get back to 
> right before the upgrade in seconds. I have confirmed that its only 
> these 2 packages that cause this.
> 
> Not being a kernel "expert", or even a "the way ubuntu boots" expert, I 
> am sort of stuck. Its obvious to me either the VM SCSI device is not 
> being detected, or, if it is, its not being used at all. With not shell 
> do goto i cannot diagnose the problem further.
> 
> Since dapper is a developemt work, and I'm running this in a VM, this 
> is no big deal for me. I can just ignore that update for a while. I was 
> jsut wondering if anyone else had the same problem/a fix/an answer.
> 
> Thanks and keep up the great work.
> 
> Matt Nicholson
> sjoeboo at sjoeboo.com
> sjoeboo.com
> 


Kind Regards Russell
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