Hello,
I'm working on a customer to convert his physical servers to vSphere 5.5 infrastructure.
I'm using converter 5.5 and have problems P2Ving one windows 2003 server with system disk with 2 partitions (C and E).
Physical Server
Disk 2: system disk with 2 partitions (C:, E: )
Vmware Converter
I have converted in following way:
Partition C:, G:, F: together
Partition E: standalone (converter 5.5 doesn’t support conversion of multiple partitions on the same disk).
Result is I have one virtual machine with 3 vmdk (disks C, G, F) and another “fake” virtual machine with only one vmdk (disk E).
I have moved the disk E vmdk to the folder of the “real” vm and added it to the virtual machine.
Boot.ini file is as following:
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Windows Server 2003, Standard" /fastdetect
When I boot the virtual machine, I see the boot.ini menu, but the system doesn’t start and loop forever to boot menu.
Can anyone help me ?
thanks in advance
Best regards
Davide
There is no Agent's log inside...
The error is:
2015-01-16T15:59:08.108+01:00 [01844 info 'Default'] [,0] boot.ini:
--> [boot loader]
--> timeout=30
--> default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
--> [operating systems]
--> multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Windows Server 2003, Standard" /fastdetect
--> C:\CMDCONS\BOOTSECT.DAT="Microsoft Windows Recovery Console" /cmdcons
2015-01-16T15:59:08.108+01:00 [01844 info 'Default'] [,0] Error parsing arc name C:
just remove last line from boot.ini and repeat operation.
HTH
The last line is:
C:\CMDCONS\BOOTSECT.DAT="Microsoft Windows Recovery Console" /cmdcons
right ?
I need to remove it from physical server and do a new conversion ?
Yes, correct.
I'm unlucky.
Here the latest logfiles.
I can mount and browse system disk to another vm (see attached image).
Boot.ini is now:
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Windows Server 2003, Standard" /fastdetect
I don't see errors... So the conversion and reconfig passed but target VM doesn't boot, correct?
Could you try to convert without incremental options?
Yes, it is correct.
What do you mean with incremental options ?
In 'Advanced options'/Synchronize do *not* check the 'Synchronize changes' box.
OK. I'm going to try.
tnx
OK, nothing to do. The system does not want to boot.
At this point I decided to creeate a fresh new vm and I will convert only the user data disk (it's a fileserver). Therefore add data disk to the virtual machine.
Thank you for all your help and support.
Best regards,
Davide