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XenServer 6.2 update woes

Recently I was required to update a number of XenServers that I've taken over. They were running 6.2SP1 but were about 6 updates behind. No problem, I'll just queue the updates up and shoot them over. Had 2 Windows VM's (2008R2 and 2012 server) and 5 Ubuntu 12.04LTS Linux Servers. The updates were fairly straight forward - I followed my own guide :-) After the final update was completed I booted up the VMs only to find the two Windows Servers came up no problems, and none of the Linux servers booted. None of them. They started up, black screen and white cursor in the top left hand corner and that was it. No boot no errors, just gone. I ran through some basic repair work and had no joy. I changed the GrubConf.py from  if arg.strip() == "${saved_entry}": to  if arg.strip() == "${saved_entry}" or arg.strip() == "${next_entry}": . Still no luck. I re-installed Grub - no joy. I booted from the Ubuntu server CD and tried to run rescue the broken

elementary OS Review

I came across elementary OS on LifeHacker I think and thought it looked pretty interesting. I've been looking for a lightweight operating system that's reliable and fairly full featured (I accept it won't be totally featured - that's the cost of lightweight) for use on various older laptops and the like. elementary OS is a free download with donations as optional. I downloaded it and burned it to a CD. Alas my favourite test laptop has gone the way of the dodo and is never to return (much like the dodo). I found a HP Pavilion D6 floating around, replaced the hard disk (it was toast) and the RAM (also toast) with 6GB. It's an i3 which doesn't really qualify as a lower end machine, but what the hey. elementary is based on Ubuntu linux and is quite heavily customised running a lightweight desktop called Pantheon. The current version of elementary is called Luna and it's nice to see they are in development of new versions and it seems like an active developm