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Old 12-29-2010, 05:43 PM   #1
stevelq1
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No valid partition Xen server


Hi All,

Attempting to move from Xen to VMware, have dd old xen disk to image file and loaded in vmware. The disk is visible when running from a knoppix rescue disk however it can only be mounted as /dev/sda

On the Xen vm fdisk -l shows /dev/sda as:
Disk /dev/sda1 doesn't contain a valid partition table

This also reflects in the DD image.

I'm assuming this is because it was part of a volume group ?? on the Xen Server.

As it is mounted as /dev/sda on the knoppix rescue cd I can't run grub or seem to mount it as /dev/sda1 after recreating the partition in fdisk...

How can I reinstall grub on this and get it to boot ?

Thanks
 
Old 01-07-2011, 01:00 PM   #2
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Don't use dd to dump the image to convert from Xen to VMware, there are better ways.

http://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-con...hine-to-vmware
 
  


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