Error Loading Operating System After P2v Linux
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system" - P2V convertion of CentOS 5.3 Hulk007 Jun 2, 2010 4:38 PM Hi! All, I have vmware virtual machine operating system not found a physical CentOS 5.3 server which I converted to a VM using the vmware converter standard 4.01. edition. The convertion succeded. However, when I try to power on
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the VM - I get a message" Error loading operating system" I see from various other forums and threads that I have to boot from a live cd and perform some operations. Not sure the steps I need to follow.I entered "linux rescue" at the boot and it prompted me to setup "Setup Networking" - I selected "NO" The next screen messsage:"The rescue environment will now attempt to find your linux installation and mount it under the directory /mnt/sysimage. You can them make any changes to the system. If you want to proceed with this step choose 'continue'. You can also choose to mount your file system read-only instead of read-write by choosing 'read-only'. If for some reason this process fails you can choose 'skip' and this step will be skipped and you will go directly to a command shell"I selected "CONTINUE"The next screen message: "Your system has been mounted under /mnt/sysimage. Press to get a shell. If you would like to make your system the root environment, run the command chroot /mnt/sysimage. The system will reboot automatically when you exit from the shell."I selected "OK" and Iam presented with the promptsh-3.2#Appreciate if someone can help me on how to proceed further and make this vmdk bootable. Pl let me know if you need more info.Many thanks Ven 6166Views Tags: none (add)
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a number of physical servers and XEN instances that needed to be moved to the new vSphere environment. While VMware Converter 5 does https://vmsysadmin.wordpress.com/2012/02/10/resolving-linux-boot-issues-after-p2v-with-vmware-converter/ a good job live-cloning the existing Linux servers, sometimes you have to use the Cold Clone boot CD if the physical server uses software RAID (and then boot VM from the broken mirror side), or sometimes the resulting VM does not boot because of issues with bootloader. For the most migrations I've used VMware Converter 5.0. One thing you need operating system to do right away is to modify the config for VMware Converter to enable the root login and keep the failed helper VM. Enable useSourcePasswordInHelperVm flag and disable powerOffHelperVm. See http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1008209 for details. Now you should have the result of your failed conversion preserved, and should be able boot the VM to check why the failure have occurred. There are a error loading operating few reasons why the conversion can fail at 99% while reconfiguring the OS. It could be because the disk path had changed, kernel modules are missing, or grub is not finding stuff. Originally my XEN conversions were failing at 99% with FAILED: An error occurred during the conversion: ‘GrubInstaller::InstallGrub: Failed to read GRUB configuration from /mnt/p2v-src-root/boot/grub/menu.lst'. This problem is related to the fact that XEN instances do not have /boot/grub/menu.lst in place. To fix this and or any other bootloader issues, grab your favorite Linux rescue disk and boot the VM from it. Since I was converting SLES, I've used SLES 10 SP2 boot CD, and booted into "Rescue System". Alternatively, you can attach the converted vmdk to an existing Linux VM. Once booted into the rescue, check the present disks with "fdisk -l". Most likely, your devices are now showing up as /dev/sdaX, since the disk controller was changed to VMware LSI Logic Parallel. Mount your new /dev/sda2 partition as /mnt, add /dev, and chroot into it. # mount /dev/sda2 /mnt # mount -bind /dev /mnt/dev #