I'm sorry to report that although my workaround was able to get the system to be updated to the latest packages and kernel, even with the kernel 2.6.27-2 the system miserably fails to load al together. The kernel generates a trace a7919e7f17c0a725 message.
** Attachment added: "Picture of the kernel trace generated in 2.6.27-2" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/17284281/kernel%20trace.png -- Kernel panic during boot in VirtualBox with kernel 2.6.26.*-generic https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/246067 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
