After converting physical system to virtual guest using VMWare Convertor the guest will not boot
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:
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Mount: Could not find filesystem "/dev/root"
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- 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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