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

[Jim Cornette]

Phil Schaffner wrote:
> 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.
> 
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> 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.

I'll try a version as above or the FC2 installation version. The one on 
FC3T1 installation disk for entering rescue mode and the kernel that is 
installed on the FC3T1 installation have a problem with this virtual 
machine.

> 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.

The host is XP pro and if the video problem I'm having with this machine 
is corrected, I might try FC3T1 as host or FC2 as host.

Jim

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