Ubuntu 9.10 upgrade went smooth
my Ubuntu 9.04 --> 9.10 linode upgrade went flawlessly.
James
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A few of us had to do some tweaks to get it to work.
@chesty:
does lish console work for you?
I see the boot status messages, but get no login prompt. So no, LISH is not working. Tried both AJAX console and SSH.
James
# hvc0 - getty for Linode console
start on stopped rc RUNLEVEL=[2345]
stop on runlevel [!2345]
respawn
exec /sbin/getty -8 38400 hvc0
then run
sudo service hvc0 start
James
@techman224:
Should I switch to the paravirt kernel before or after the upgrade?
I switched kernels first, then ran:
do-release-upgrade
per the "Network Upgrade" instruction from:
James
@zunzun:
@techman224:Should I switch to the paravirt kernel before or after the upgrade?
I switched kernels first, then ran:
do-release-upgrade
per the "Network Upgrade" instruction from:
http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/upgrading James
Thanks, I switched the kernels before the upgrade, and everything works.
I was holding back the upgrade originally because I was worried about problems but if you follow the steps above, all should go well!
So it seems like nothing scary will happen if you forget to switch to Paravirt kernel before do-release-upgrade.
Yes, this time the upgrade was so easy and harmless.
Thanks to Linode !
Thanks to Ubuntu !
Cheers.
@pclissold:
I don't think Karmic actually requires paravirt, it's just that the version of udev that Karmic uses doesn't support older kernels.
Yes. Same with Arch.
I agreed and I prefer paravirtualization.
See the definition at:
So, paravirtualization brings better performance to VM's and the hypervisor is impervious to driver failure.
Regards.
@dkobozev:
I also just upgraded to 9.10 (from 8.10). I did not switch to Paravirt kernel before upgrade and couldn't log in via SSH after system restart. After I shut down my linode and switched to Paravirt the system went back up.
So it seems like nothing scary will happen if you forget to switch to Paravirt kernel before do-release-upgrade.
Same here. Stressful few minutes, and then this thread solved it all. Doesn't seem to be any issues now I've swapped to Paravirt!