VMware version 4.5.2 and FC2 to FC3T1 upgrade, after-effects - kernel panic

[Phil Schaffner]

On Wed, 2004-07-14 at 21:48 -0400, Jim Cornette wrote:
> I just upgraded an installation of FC2 to FC3T1 and the installation 
> process took about 2 hours to complete. This was not really a problem, 
> just something noticed.

My upgrade of a VMware 4.5.2 FC2+some-rawhide-packages VM (yeah, I know
- want to test upgrades from a release, but this is the one I had
hanging around) would have taken about the same time if I had been on
the ball changing the pointers to the ISO images.  The thing I noticed
about the upgrade was that on an 8GB virtual disk with in excess of 1GB
free the upgrade refused to run saying I needed something over 100MB
more free space.  Created another virtual disk and migrated /usr/src
and /home to new partitions to make more room.  Watched the space on VC
2 during the upgrade and it never exceeded 87% of the capacity.

> The problem is that the kernel that I was running on FC2 seemed to be 
> working alright. After the upgrade and rebooting the machine, a kernel 
> panic was encountered.

Kernel 2.6.6-1.406 was working with FC2, and no problems on the upgrade.
Rebooted fine for me.  Possible difference is that I'm running a FC2
host with vmware-any-any-update73 from http://ftp.cvut.cz/vmware/
(I see 75 is there now).  Couldn't tell from your screenshot what host
OS you're using (Windows? Different window manager?  Doesn't look quite
like mine on FC2/KDE.), but could make a difference. Playing with FC3T1
now.

Phil