Need advice on Coldclone conversion

[ashishpotluri]

Coldclone conversion of W2K3 Server running on HPBL460C blade with boot from Hitachi AMS 200 SAN , failed with error "unable to determine guest operating system"

can someone please let me know process to get this working .

Thanks in advance ..:)

[dconvery]

WOW...that's almost as good as a user saying "I got some error message. Canyou help?"

If this occured during the 97% comlete phase, then the image was successful, the conversion process cannot determine the location of the system/boot partition. This is usually because of a misguided arc path in boot.ini. You can use a "helper" VM running W2K3 to mount the drive and edit the boot.ini.

If this is occurring during the first 2%, then the cold clone CD cannot access the SAN system/boot partitions. In this case, you will need to inject the HBA drivers into the coldclone cd image using PETool.exe

Dave Convery - VMware vExpert 2009

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[IamTHEvilONE]

99% of the time you are missing drivers for the controller cards. You will need to provide a driver either at boot or integrate it into the ISO. If you provide it during boot, it has to be from a floppy disc and press F6 like when installing windows for the first time.

Unable to determine guest os is like converter saying:

1) I don't see any hard drives, so what do you expect me to convert

2) I see some hard drives, but have no clue what it is since I only support NTFS.

Regards,

EvilOne

VMware vExpert 2009

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