Did you do a cold or hot clone? If it was cold, you sometimes need to do a few fixes to get your old install to realize it's on different hardware. I recommend you boot from a rescue CD, mount your install, chroot into it, and run grub-install --recheck /dev/sda. I had to do these steps to get my P2V:d linux to find it's disks: In /etc/modprobe.conf: alias scsi_hostadapter mptbase alias scsi_hostadapter1 mptscsih alias scsi_hostadapter2 mptscsih And, create a new initrd: cd /boot mkinitrd -v -f initrd-1.2.3.4.img initrd-1.2.3.4 replace 1.2.3.4 with your kernel version of course. You can also try, in the grub shell, to type your boot commands manually (in other words the three lines after the "title"), maybe you'll get an error message. You can also try changing the scsi controller type in the VM settings, but I doubt this is your problem because I think you won't even get to grub if its wrong. Good luck. On Wed, 22 Sep 2010 17:00 -0400, "Masoom Siddiqui" <siddiqui.masoom@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > I recently had Redhat 7.2 physical machine converted into VMware guest > with > P2V tool vmware converter. When I boot the vm guest it drops me into > <grub> > shell. In the shell if I type "configfile /grub/grub.conf" I get Kernel > to > choose from and it boots normally from there. > > Why does boot process drop into grub shell? > > I have separate /boot parition... > > df -h > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/sda2 2.0G 1022M 914M 53% / > /dev/sda1 243M 13M 218M 6% /boot > none 503M 0 503M 0% /dev/shm > /dev/sda7 2.0G 65M 1.8G 4% /tmp > /dev/sda3 7.9G 929M 6.6G 13% /usr > /dev/sda5 4.0G 1.1G 2.6G 30% /usr/local > /dev/sda8 20G 7.1G 11G 38% /var > Below is my /boot/grub/grub.conf... > > 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/sda2 > # initrd /initrd-version.img > #boot=/dev/sda > default=0 > timeout=10 > splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz > title Red Hat Linux (2.4.20-24.7) > root (hd0,0) > kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-24.7 ro root=/dev/sda2 > initrd /initrd-2.4.20-24.7.img > > device map ... > cat device.map > (hd0) /dev/sda1 > > Regards > -masoom > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list