Grub error while moving a VMWare Guest from one cluster to another.

Solution Unverified - Updated -

Issue

  • When moving a VMware guest from one cluster to another, the operation fails at 97% saying it was unable to load GRUB.
  • The following error appears
An error occurred during the conversion: 'GrubInstaller::InstallGrub: /usr/lib/vmware-converter/installGrub.sh failed with return code: 255, and message:...

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5/6
  • VMWare Virtualization Platform

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