[SOLVED] VMware converter, P-to-V with software RAID? Missing /boot

Train · 04-24-2014, 07:51 PM

Has anyone tried this work around successfully?

I found this below:

Quote:

/boot is on Software RAID which is not supported by Linux P2V:

http://www.vmware.com/support/conver...conv40.html#58

If /boot is the only important filesystem on Software RAID (/dev/md*) you could workaround this by:

1. back up the /boot files to /tmp (or some place with space),

2. unmount /boot,

3. create a new volume (partition or LVM logical volume) on some available storage (might need to plug in a USB drive),

4. formatting it with ext3,

5. mount it at /boot

6. copy all the /boot files over to there,

7. make backups of /etc/fstab and /boot/grub/menu.lst

8. change fstab and menu.lst to point to the new /boot filesystem.

That should allow Converter to work. And you can revert this all very easily by restoring the backups of fstab and menu.lst, unmounting /boot, remounting the original /boot (/dev/md0).

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Train · 04-24-2014, 10:14 PM

Well, I just tried it and it works!

Except you still can't see the md* partitions when you are choosing what to copy over. You probably need to break the RAID set.