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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.<BR>
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On Wed, 2005-12-07 at 12:50 -0500, matt nicholson wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">Not sure which mailing list to post this to so going to both users and </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">devel.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">I have dapper running in a VM on VMware 5.5, breezy as a host. All of </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">the recent Dapper upgrades have gone quite nice thus far, with one </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">exception. When performing the upgrade of linux-image-386(2.6.12.16 to </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">2.6.15.4) and linux-restricted-modules-386(2.6.12.16 to 2.6.15.4), the </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">VM dies. By this i mean that, upon reboot, Grub comes up, the system </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">starts to boot (the new "handdrawn" usplash comes up), and it gets as </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">far a "Mounting the root file system" After a few seconds here, I get </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">dropped to a console saying:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"> Alert! /dev/sda1/ does not exist. Dropping you to a shell!</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">however, i do not get dropped to a shell and the VM just sits there, </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">dead.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Luckily I make snap shots for just this purpose and can get back to </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">right before the upgrade in seconds. I have confirmed that its only </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">these 2 packages that cause this.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Not being a kernel "expert", or even a "the way ubuntu boots" expert, I </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">am sort of stuck. Its obvious to me either the VM SCSI device is not </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">being detected, or, if it is, its not being used at all. With not shell </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">do goto i cannot diagnose the problem further.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Since dapper is a developemt work, and I'm running this in a VM, this </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">is no big deal for me. I can just ignore that update for a while. I was </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">jsut wondering if anyone else had the same problem/a fix/an answer.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Thanks and keep up the great work.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Matt Nicholson</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"><A HREF="mailto:sjoeboo@sjoeboo.com">sjoeboo@sjoeboo.com</A></FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">sjoeboo.com</FONT>
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