debian 5.0 migration problem---Urgent

[Shivaramakrishnan]

Hello,
This needs to be completed as soon as possible.
I am having problems in migrating the debian 5.0 from vmware to proxmox 1.9.I am able to migrate the debian 6.0 with no issues.
I am getting this error while booting the debian 5.0 VM on proxmox

"Begin: Waiting for root filesystem...
Done.
WARNING boot device may be renamed. Try root = /dev/hda1
ALERT! /dev/sda1 does not exist. Dropping to a shell!
Check your root= boot argument (cat /proc/cmdline)
Check for missing modules (cat /proc/modules), or device files (ls /dev) "
(initramfs)


I followed the same procedure for both the versions,One works with no issues and other does not boot up.
Can someone please let me know what needs to be done in order to fix this issue?



Thanks
Shiva

 

[jekader]

Looks like the disk names have changed.

Try editing the grub boot string and changing root=/dev/sda1 to root=/dev/hda1
If that helps and it boots you must also change /etc/fstab

Another option would be to mount the HDD image as a SCSI drive, not an IDE one.