We have recently upgrade to VMware ESXi 5.0 and we have an old virtual Fedora 9 running a MySQL database. It's just doing the job so it has never been upgraded.
The kernel of the Fedoar 9 is 2.6.25-14-fc9.i686
I have moved it from Esx 3.02 to ESXi 5.0. I'm able to install WMware tools on the server, but not Upgrade the virtual hardware.
It's running on a HP Proliant DL380 G7 8 CPUs - Intel Xeon. (64-bits)
When I upgrade the virtual hardware the Fedora hangs at starting_udev.
I found that it is because of the 88-clock.rules.
If I rename that file, the Fedora boots up OK, but when I then try to run a reboot it then hangs on "Syncing hardware clock to system time" and I have to power off.
The 88-clock.rules looks like this:
ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="rtc", RUN+="/sbin/hwclock --hctosys --rtc=/dev/%k"
ACTION=="add", ENV{MAJOR}=="10", ENV{MINOR}=="135", RUN+="/sbin/hwclock --hctosys --rtc=/dev/%k"
Anyone how can point me to a way to work around this. No help from the WMware support as this is an unsupported version of Fedora.
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