After converting physical system to virtual guest using VMWare Convertor the guest will not boot

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Issue

  • Converted a Linux server via VMware P2V and it completed successfully. Now when booting the new virtual machine, it just keeps rebooting with the error:
    •  Mount: Could not find filesystem "/dev/root"
      
  • Vmware Virtual machine does not boot after being converted from a physical Red Hat machine

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • VMWare Convertor 3.0.x

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