Comment 160 for bug 25931

Hi,

Mine was (probably) unusual, in that I upgraded a (newly installed and patched) 6.06 installation straight to 8.04.

Did this because my father has a PC running 6.06, and he never receives the "newer distribution available" update notice when he runs the update manager.

To see what might be going on, 6.06 got installed from CD into a VMware virtual machine, and then latest updates applied. Yep, he's right, there's no notification of a newer Ubuntu version being available.

Instead, ran the command to check if there are any development versions that can be upgraded to, and it suggested 8.04 (pre release at the time).

As this was a virtual machine I thought "what the heck" and let it proceed. Everything seemed ok afterwards except for the HAL initialisation failure error, that turned out to be because it wasn't in the rc levels after the upgrade.

Hope that helps. :)