VM panics at boot after P2V
Issue
- Tried to convert a physical machine to a VMware virtual machine. Virtual machine will not boot.
- After P2V migration, VMware virtual machine panics. The screen shot includes the following:
mount: could not find filesystem '/dev/root'
setuproot: moving /dev failed: No such file or directory
setuproot: error mounting /proc: No such file or directory
setuproot: error mounting /sys: No such file or directory
switchroot: mount failed: No such file or directory
Kernel paic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
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