Hi.
I used VMware Standalone converter 5.5 to convert a CentOS 5.3 machine from a Physical server to a Virtaul Machine on ESXi 5.1 . Thus far with every attempt to convert this machine I get a "Kernel panic"
mount: could not find filesystem '/dev/root' setuproot: moving /dev failed: No such file or directory setuproot: error mounting /proc failed: No such file or directory setuproot: error mounting /sys failed: No such file or directory switchroot: mount failed: No such file or directory Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!-220000
I have follows the VMware provided solution for this situation but the results are the same http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd... http://blog.edgoad.com/2010/03/vmware-no-volume-groups-found.html
I have re-installed the CentOS kernel but that didn't make any difference. I have tried installing disk labels but that didn't make any difference. I have installed a clean install of 5.3 into a new vm , I even did a custom disk configuration to match that created by VMware Converter and that worked fine with most of the configuration being the same with the exception that it used disk labels.
I'm at a loss at this point , I'm open to suggestions.
Here are my configs as shown when using a rescue disk and chroot into /mnt/sysimage
[root@localhost /]# cat /boot/grub/grub.conf # grub.conf generated by anaconda # # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file # NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that # all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg. # root (hd0,0) # kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 console=ttyS0,9600n8 console=tty0 # initrd /initrd-version.img #boot=/dev/sda default=0 timeout=5 #splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz hiddenmenu # (removed by Converter) title Memtest86+ (1.65) # (removed by Converter) root (hd0,0) # (removed by Converter) kernel /memtest86+-1.65 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet
title CentOS (2.6.18-128.7.1.el5) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-128.7.1.el5 ro root=/dev/sdb1 rhgb quiet # kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-128.7.1.el5 ro root=LABEL=/ initrd /initrd-2.6.18-128.7.1.el5.img
#title CustomKernel (2.6.18-128.7.1.el5) # root (hd0,0) # kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-128.7.1.el5 ro root=/dev/sdb1 rhgb quiet # initrd /initrd-2.6.18-128.7.1.el5.img [root@localhost /]#
[root@localhost /]# cat /boot/grub/device.map (hd0) /dev/sda (hd1) /dev/sdb [root@localhost /]#
[root@localhost /]# cat /etc/fstab /dev/sdb1 / ext3 defaults,noatime 1 2 #LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults,noatime 1 2 LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2 tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 [root@localhost /]#
[root@localhost /]# fdisk -l /dev/sda
Disk /dev/sda: 108 MB, 108134400 bytes 4 heads, 32 sectors/track, 1650 cylinders Units = cylinders of 128 * 512 = 65536 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 2 1633 104448 83 Linux [root@localhost /]# fdisk -l /dev/sdb
Disk /dev/sdb: 159.9 GB, 159921602560 bytes 143 heads, 28 sectors/track, 78008 cylinders Units = cylinders of 4004 * 512 = 2050048 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 1 78009 156172288 83 Linux [root@localhost /]#
[root@localhost /]# mount /dev/sdb1 on / type ext3 (rw,noatime) /dev/sda1 on /boot type ext3 (rw) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw) tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw) proc on /proc type proc (rw) sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw) [root@localhost /]#
Thank you. G