[bitfolk] Ubuntu 10.04 on BitFolk (Was: Re: Support this weekend / Ubuntu Lucid LTS release)

Hi, On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 12:58:50PM +0000, Andy Smith wrote: The first attempt earlier today seems to have gone well. I started with a clean 8.04 LTS image, did a dist-upgrade to get all the updates, and then followed the instructions at: http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/upgrading#Network%20Upgrade%20for%20Ubuntu%… to upgrade it to 10.04. I allowed it to do everything it wanted to do, but at the end when it wanted to reboot I told it no. I made an /etc/init/hvc0.conf file that looks like this: #----8<--------------------------------------------------------------------- # hvc0 - getty # # This service maintains a getty on hvc0 from the point the system is # started until it is shut down again. start on stopped rc RUNLEVEL=[2345] stop on runlevel [!2345] respawn exec /sbin/getty -8 38400 hvc0 #----8<--------------------------------------------------------------------- I found that update-grub wouldn't find linux-image-2.6.32-21-generic as it kept saying it was a non-Xen kernel while I'm on Xen (probably because at this point I was still booted in the 8.04 Xen kernel) so I made sure there was a manual stanza in /boot/grub/menu.lst that looked like: #----8<--------------------------------------------------------------------- title Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, kernel 2.6.32-21-generic-pae root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-21-generic-pae root=UUID=d8affdac-b42e-42da-9faf-a54b4ad3a31d ro console=hvc0 initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-21-generic-pae #----8<--------------------------------------------------------------------- I made sure not to have any clocksource=jiffies of xencons=tty there in the kernel parameters. I then shut down and booted from the xen shell into this kernel and it seems OK so far. After boot I was able to update-grub to get a proper generated menu.lst. This was done on faustino which is Debian Lenny; other servers are older and using backported stuff so it may not work (the same|at all); I still have to test that. The following servers have the same versions of host kernel and Xen stuff so I expect them to work similarly: barbar dunkel faustino So if you are brave you may wish to try this. I would still recommend you put in a support ticket for a snapshot to be done so you can easily roll back should you need to. Alternatively if you're interested in moving to Lucid then for a limited time (and subject to capacity) I am willing to set you up a new Lucid VPS that you can run concurrently with your existing VPS for 2 weeks at no charge, to migrate things over. I'll report back with further findings. Cheers, Andy -- http://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting "When the Opposition's here, you tell them nothing except where the toilets are, and you lie about that." -- Malcolm Tucker