We created a vmdk by VM Converter but failed to boot it up at WM workstation.
Source Physical Server: RedHat Linux 7.3 hosted on an old IBM e330 server
Targert:
Initially a VM workstation on notebook.
Finally on ESXi Server on a HP DL380 G10
The steps we have done so far:
1. Use a VMWare Converter 3.03 startup disk to cold boot the source server and generate a VMDK (VMDK1) into a USB thumbdrive
2. The VMDK1 cannot be boot up at VM workstation on notebook. Showing some error related to RAID
3. Use the BIOS of the RAID controller to dissolve the RAID 1 and remove the 2nd harddisk from server
4. Re-do the VM Converter for to try to generate a VMDK 2. VMDK 2 generation failed after some time. The system just rebooted.
5. Try to use CloneZilla to clone the system instead. But the CloneZilla report bad block found on harddisk
6. Scan/repair the bad block. Scan/Repair success.
7. Re-do the VM Converter to generate VMDK 3.
8: Try to boot up the VMDK 3 and get the following error messages:
Creating root device
Mounting root filesystem
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k block-major-8, error = 2
mount: error 6 mounting ext3
privotroot: pivot_root (/sysroot, /sysroot/initrd) failed: 2
Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init = option to kernel.
Any help?
