Red Hat 5 VM will not recover with an ISO attached...

[NYSteve]

Hi,

     The Linux team where I work have a VM that, for one reason or another, bit the dust.  To recover the VM, they've attached a Red Hat 5 ISO file and booted the system from it.  They are seeing that the booted ISO is unable to see the two virtual hard drives that the VM had been configured with.  Has anyone else had an instance where the "recovery CD" fails?

     The screen that the Linux folks are seeing is attached below.

     Thanks for any info!

          NYSteve   
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

[wwan]

Are you using paravirtual adapter? If so driver might not be loaded when booted from ISO, which is why you cannnot see the drives. Try changing it to LSI logic SAS and boot from ISO. Or you can mount the disks to another linux vm. If you are using paravirtual, make sure vmtools is installed that vm.

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=101039...

[NYSteve]

Thanks, wwan!  The Linux team decided to rebuild that VM, but I am going to try and recreate the problem with them and try changing that adapter.  BTW, VMTools is installed on that VM.

NYSteve