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upgrade from 8.04 to 8.10 gone wrong

Asked by Tony

I am a newbie to linux and have just attempted an upgrade from 8.04 to 8.10. All went well until the restart where it gets to the opening screen and waits showing the load-bar moving backwards and forward then drop out to a busybox saying /dev/mapper/Ubuntu-root does not exist. I think that it maybe it does not recognize the raid. Yet everything was fine with 8.04. I have tried starting on the live-CD (both 04 & 10) and I can boot in but can not see the drives do I have to do anything (IE commands) to see them. I have also tried the first part of a reinstall with 8.04 It can see the 2 HD and say that the data will be destroyed if I continue. Is there a way I can do the update or restore the previous version without loosing everything? Thankyou

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Tony (forsyte-consulting) said : 		#1

Further to the earlier post I can now get into the system using version 2.6.24-23 but 2.6.27-11still fails. Using the earlier version all appears to work OK except, I am running vmware and the vms (Windows 2003) x 4 Two will not power on and 2 as soon as Ctr+Alt+Ins to log on The window in which it is displayed resizes and nothing .. any ideas.I do not think it is a vmware or Windows problem as the only changes were the upgrade so must be Linux/Ubuntu. Any help will be greatly appreciated as I am well out of my depth here.

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Tony (forsyte-consulting) said : 		#2

Please cancel this post ... going back to familiar ground. May come back to Linux when I get more time to play with it.