2.6.20-16 kernel, was Re: vmware blues

[Bruce Marshall]

On Monday 11 June 2007, david wrote:
> No, but I've been researching upgrading the kernel. Sadly I see nothing
> but bad news about 2.6.20-16 so I'm a bit reluctant. Is there any GOOD
> news about this kernel? Is it just a case of
> <sudo apt-get install linux-image-2.6.20-16-386>
>
> Maybe there are just a few people having problems and most people are OK
> with this kernel. Any comments?

I reported some problems with the first release of 2.6.20-16 where it halted 
the boot while hung on  /dev/hde...   which is a device I don't have.

But two days ago they released another version of it and it boots just fine.