Hi. I have cloned a RHEL 5.6 physical server over to a ESXi 5.0 Virtual Machine. Using a live CD on the new Virtual Machine I created 3 partition /boot (/dev/sda1), / (/dev/sda2) and swap (/dev/sda3), I then mounted the / (sda2) partition and created the /boot directory and mount the boot partition partition /dev/sda1 into /boot. I then used rsync to copy the source machine over to the Virtual Machine. I have not been able to get Grub to go further than : GRUB Loading stage1.5. GRUB Loading, please wait... Error 2 I have tried : the Super Grub http://www.supergrubdisk.org/wiki/Howto_Fix_Grub#GRUB_solution_.28Linux_shell.29 http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/ReinstallGRUB # chroot /mnt/sysimage # grub-install /dev/sda /dev/sda does not have any corresponding BIOS drive. http://www.av8n.com/computer/htm/grub-reinstall.htm # grub-install --root-directory=/mnt/sysimage /dev/sda /dev/sda does not have any corresponding BIOS drive. I have also tried a number using the grub console with a number of different configurations all failed . fdisk output : Disk /dev/sda: 549.7 GB, 549755813888 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 66837 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 131 1048576 83 Linux Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/sda2 131 60968 488669184 83 Linux /dev/sda3 60968 66838 47152128 82 Linux swap / Solaris fstab [root at nzhmlwks113 vm]# cat fstab /dev/sda2 / ext3 defaults 1 1 /dev/sda1 /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 /dev/sda3 swap swap defaults 0 0 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/LogVol01 # initrd /initrd-version.img #boot=/dev/sda1 default=0 timeout=10 splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz hiddenmenu title Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (2.6.18-308.11.1.el5) root (hd0,1) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-308.11.1.el5 ro root=LABEL=/ ramdisk_size=8388608 initrd /initrd-2.6.18-308.11.1.el5.img title Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (2.6.18-308.1.1.el5) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-308.1.1.el5 ro root=LABEL=/ ramdisk_size=8388608 initrd /initrd-2.6.18-308.1.1.el5.img I have also tried "ro root=/dev/sda2" I have been look at then for 8 hour now and I'm clueless as to what I have missed. I'm hoping a fresh pair of eyes can see the issue. Thanks in advance. GM