Physical machine migation help

[RCNunya]

I followed the SSH instructions from this page and it seemed to go just fine. If I ssh into the promox machine, I can see the raw file and it is about the same size as the physical partition I copied, (40GB)
I originally created a 45GB drive on proxmox to make sure I had enough room.
When I did the command, I did 'dd if=/dev/sda1...' instead of just sda, is that ok?

When I try to start it and look at the console, all I get is

'Press F12 for boot menu.'

'Booting from Hard Disk...'

 

[tom]

for me, the easiest way is using clonezilla live-cd´s. i did all migration with this method with no issues.

 

[RCNunya]

That was originally what I was going to do, but I only had clonezilla on USB and DVD and this machine is so old it only has a CD drive, so I thought I would use the SSH method as it seemed fairly simple as well.

 

[tom]

maybe you just miss some boot record? clonezilla takes care of all this.

 

[RCNunya]

If I ssh the whole partition, how could it miss anything?
I will pick up some CD's on the way home and try that way.
The only other thing I see that is different than the other XP machine I just created on Proxmox as a fresh machine, is the file size seems to be actual data and not the partition size, by that I mean

The one I created on PM I made a 40 GB disk, but the raw file size I see is only 11GB in the file system
This one Im copying I made a 45GB disk and did a 40GB copy of the partition, but that partition only has 20GB of data on it, but the raw file shows 40GB

 

[tom]

you point the new Proxmox VE VM to boot from the right HDD?

 

[tom]

... just boot a live cd to see if the HDD got all data.

 

[RCNunya]

I dont see where it is possible to change that once you have set it up, but it does appear to be looking at the right place.
The vm-105-disk-1.raw is the file i created

 

[tom]

go to the "options" tab to see the boot priority.

 

[RCNunya]

I see there where you can choose CD floppy or hard drive to boot first, but it doesnt look like you have any other choice of which drive to choose.

 

[tom]

looks right to me.

 

[RCNunya]

I thought so too!
Im going to load up a rescue CD ISO on there and boot to that to see if it sees any of the machine data on that disk, if that doesnt reveal anything, I will just try the clonezilla method tonight when I get home.

Thanks so much for your quick replies.

 

[RCNunya]

What happens when you dont read all of the instructions? You get home and realize you should have brought TWO clonezilla disks for this procedure... luckily my server has a dvd drive so I had a disk for that.

Anyway, the only thing that didnt go along with the instructions was the fdisk part, I couldnt get it to display any info, did the clone anyway and it is working just fine.

Thanks again for your help.