vmware upgrade fc4->fc5

Matthew Saltzman mjs at ces.clemson.edu
Thu Sep 7 18:15:12 UTC 2006


On Thu, 7 Sep 2006, Paul Lemmons wrote:

> OK, I ran the upgrade again with  the latest VMWare Workstation
> available. No cheese down that hole :(
> 
> The upgrade runs flawlessly after I specifically select the Buslogic
> controller. When I reboot it complains that it can not find the disks and
> then kernel panics. Is there some change I need to make to some
> configuration to make FC5 recognize the Buslogic controller and thus see
> my virtual disks?

I just had a thought:  Can you boot with a rescue disk?  If so, try 
re-making the initrd for your kernel.  It may be that the disk controller 
module isn't in the initrd because you changed "hardware" after it was 
built.

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 		Matthew Saltzman

Clemson University Math Sciences
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