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21 Oct 2009If you install a brand new Ubuntu 9.04 on a linode and then upgrade it to karmic beta via a “do-release-upgrade -d”, come next reboot you’ll only be able to access your linode via the console view in the control panel. And when you do access it you’ll see that mountall is failing on mounting /proc.
Solution: go to the linode control panel and edit the configuration profile to boot 2.6.30.5-linode20 instead of the standard “Latest 2.6 stable” which is currently 2.6.18.8-linode19.
Hope this helps some other maniac out there who enjoys bleeding edge software.
Update: Ubuntu 9.10 now works OTB with Linode. There’s no need for any tinkering.
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3 Responses to Making Ubuntu karmic beta work in linode
Revin Guillen
October 29th, 2009 at 10:40 pm
I’d just like to say thanks; you absolutely saved my bacon today.
Mary Gardiner (puzzlement) 's status on Friday, 30-Oct-09 06:34:15 UTC - Identi.ca
October 30th, 2009 at 8:34 am
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TJ
October 31st, 2009 at 10:05 pm
Glad I could help. Took me almost 3 friggin’ weeks to figure it out