VMWare --> Proxmox Booting, but not all the way

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I have a multi disk VM running RH7 that I'm attempting to move over from VMWare Fusion. I have migrated all the files over and converted them from ovf --> vmdk --> .raw files. It is two separate disks. I am able to get the VM to boot-up but am getting errors.

dracut-initqueue[283]: Warning: dracut-initqueue timeout - starting timeout scripts

It gets through this aftet a couple minutes. Then I get this error:

A start job is running for dev-disk...0a1f.device (xxx/ no limit)

I'm assuming that it thinks it's missing a device of some kind? I'm not entirely sure how to troubleshoot this and haven't found much information on it. Any info would be helpful. I don't want to update the system at all as it is a dev VM and I'm attempting to keep it as-is. Thanks!
 
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Hi,

I belive your problem is in /etc/fstab, not sure if the UUID of the partitions changed, if your able to boot the system run blkid in it and check /etc/fstab.

Past its /etc/fstab and output of "blkid" If you need future help.

Kind regards,
René
 
Hi,

I belive your problem is in /etc/fstab, not sure if the UUID of the partitions changed, if your able to boot the system run blkid in it and check /etc/fstab.

Past its /etc/fstab and output of "blkid" If you need future help.

Kind regards,
René

Thanks for the quick reply! I am not able to boot into the system. Is it possible for me to use a livecd of some kind to edit this and check it out or fix it?

EDIT:

Ended up booting up via an ubuntu Live CD and here is the output of the fstab...all of the UUIDs are the same as listed here.

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Any ideas?
 
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Your error message looks like its unable to mount boot, grub is able to boot the kernel but the kernel can't mount the rootfs.

I'm sure you have a backup, if not make one. Then mount the disks to to /target for example and also mount /boot and /var into it.

after that bind mount /proc, /sys, /dev, /run in it, then chroot into /target.

In the chroot run update-grub or something (sorry i'm not a redhat expert).
 
Looks like it's having a problem with the 0a1f disk which is the OS partition "/"

Not sure if that would help because I'm attempting to use a specific grub/kernel to boot with.

Maybe there is a way I can see the full error? I'm not entirely sure how to do that as it's cut-off wtih the KVM noVNC window.
 

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