After Christians's fix I upgraded from 2.3 and everything went smoothly. But system does not restart now.
Seems new kernel cannot mount vmware disk. After 3 trials the system reboots over and over again.
Attached is the screenshot of boot message.
I wish I would have read this post beforehand. I too am running my EFW in a virtual environment and had the same issue, and like a noob, I didn't snapshot my VM before upgrading.
I tried to install the new 2.4 ISO in a new test VM and it would not recognize the LSI Logic Parallel controller. I had to switch to the BusLogic controller to get the disk to recognize the virtual HD to install. Unfortunately, switching the 2.3 VM to the BusLogic Controller did not help.
Now trying to use the Ubuntu Live CD just to see if I can pull an old backup.