Upgrading base ubuntu 9.04 image to karmic

[Aaron]

Originally Posted by adante

Ok, I am concerned that we are detracting from the main issue here. Network is down, yes, but the main filesystem is also failing to boot and dropping me into a maintenance shell.

I also remain a little skeptical about how a 2.6.18-128.1.16.el5xen can support ubuntu 9.10 which uses, as stock, a 2.6.31 kernel. I personally have experienced troubles running 9.10 (non virtualised) on kernels as 'old' as 2.6.26.

I think you may be correct, I've spoken with one of the other guys here that has had a little more experience with running Ubuntu 9.10 on our kernels and he seems to think there maybe an issue in doing it, and downgrading some packages may be the solution.

I'm going to do a little more research on this and get back to you...

[adante]

Thanks for your perseverance Aaron, it is appreciated.