#635 Issue `closed`: Unable to boot VM after a P2V¶

Labels: support / question

ravis1 opened issue at 2015-08-12 16:25:¶

Hi
I have a P2V to be done of RHEL5.6 32 bit to Vmware .We have used REAR to do P2V and restore works but after restore when we try to boot of disk it just shows a blank screen on the VM console .

Alternately if we try to boot back of the rear recovery iso and select first boot device as hd0 it can boot of to the restored image on the VM .

Can you if possible guide us what we are missing or how to get it booted of just the disk without the use of recovery iso attach

Thanks

Kush

gdha commented at 2015-08-12 17:53:¶

Hum, this means that grub setup went fine. Can you repeat the error without first booting from the ISO image?

ravis1 commented at 2015-08-12 18:00:¶

I tried booting of the hard drive and it wont even reach the grub stage i get a blank screen and thats baffling me why .

schlomo commented at 2015-08-12 19:39:¶

Can you post the configuration of the VM? E.g. the VMX file (you can stip
all private data).

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I tried booting of the hard drive and it wont even reach the grub stage i
get a blank screen and thats baffling me why .

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ravis1 commented at 2015-08-13 12:48:¶

I am waiting from my vmware team to come online before i can get that data .But for now when i boot of iso and look at partition table

Of Physical server

Disk /dev/cciss/c0d0: 146.7 GB, 146778685440 bytes
255 heads, 32 sectors/track, 35132 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 8160 * 512 = 4177920 bytes

       Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System

/dev/cciss/c0d0p1 * 1 251 1024064 83 Linux
/dev/cciss/c0d0p2 252 765 2097120 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/cciss/c0d0p3 766 2238 6009840 83 Linux
/dev/cciss/c0d0p4 2239 35132 134207520 5 Extended
/dev/cciss/c0d0p5 2239 2981 3031424 83 Linux
/dev/cciss/c0d0p6 2982 3474 2011424 83 Linux
/dev/cciss/c0d0p7 3475 3967 2011424 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/cciss/c0d0p8 3968 4460 2011424 83 Linux
/dev/cciss/c0d0p9 4461 4953 2011424 83 Linux
/dev/cciss/c0d0p10 4954 35132 123130304 83 Linux

For The VM attaching image
partiotion
screenshot

if you look at partition 4 it shows a windows label and also the partition table dosent match .Can that be an issue

Thanks

schlomo commented at 2015-08-13 12:55:¶

Partition 4 is an extended partition (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_boot_record), looks normal to me.

On 13 August 2015 at 14:48, ravis1 notifications@github.com wrote:

I am waiting from my vmware team to come online before i can get that data
.But for now when i boot of iso and look at partition table

Of Physical server

Disk /dev/cciss/c0d0: 146.7 GB, 146778685440 bytes
255 heads, 32 sectors/track, 35132 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 8160 * 512 = 4177920 bytes
   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/cciss/c0d0p1 * 1 251 1024064 83 Linux
/dev/cciss/c0d0p2 252 765 2097120 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/cciss/c0d0p3 766 2238 6009840 83 Linux
/dev/cciss/c0d0p4 2239 35132 134207520 5 Extended
/dev/cciss/c0d0p5 2239 2981 3031424 83 Linux
/dev/cciss/c0d0p6 2982 3474 2011424 83 Linux
/dev/cciss/c0d0p7 3475 3967 2011424 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/cciss/c0d0p8 3968 4460 2011424 83 Linux
/dev/cciss/c0d0p9 4461 4953 2011424 83 Linux
/dev/cciss/c0d0p10 4954 35132 123130304 83 Linux

For The VM attaching image
[image: partiotion screenshot]
https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/13679129/9250034/a84a1f60-41e7-11e5-8682-f0bd6ce8213f.png

if you look at partition 4 it shows a windows label and also the partition
table dosent match .Can that be an issue

Thanks

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