Bug#455305: Lenny hangs when booting - inux-image-2.6.22-3-686 on vmware virtual machine
Package: linux-image-2.6.22-3-686 (2.6.22-6)
Description: I installed base system of etch (stable) on a virtual machine within vmware (the free version) with the intention to do a dist-upgrade to lenny. (Etch works fine, I have multiple systems -desktop etc) running on "etch" virtual machines.).
From the command prompt of the etch base system I invoked aptitude and updated the system because there were security patches showing up. I subsequently modified the /etc/apt/sources.list file to have all the entries point to "lenny."
From the command prompt I executed the following commands
->aptitude update
->aptitude dist-upgrade
when the upgrade finished I re-booted and noted that I now had two different kernel entires in the grub menu,
these were the etch kernel 2.6.15 and the lenny kernel 2.6.22
I booted with the lenny kernel and after part of the boot the system hung at the following line
->waiting for root file system...
eventually the system went into an initramfs shell and that was that...I did not know what to do there:-)
When I boot with the 2.6.15 kernel, the boot completed, I logged into root and in fact I went ahead and installed the rest of the Lenny system (desktop..etc).
let me know if there is any other info that I can provide
TedF
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