it seems that being a oem installation is not the issue. I simply redo the restoration to a ide virtual drive and repair the installation with win2k installation cd. It works, atleast the required services are running.
On 6/16/10, Les Mikesell <[email protected]> wrote: > On 6/16/2010 1:10 AM, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: >> I used clonezilla live 20100318 karmic to create an image of a win2k sp4 >> server and restore it to a vmware player 3.0.1 >> I had seen a few threads in various forums and articles about vconverter >> not being able to convert a oem system or installed one in a vmware >> machine. >> >> Does using clonezilla also effected? I got blue screen with >> INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE message upon booting the virtual machine. >> >> I already tried the vmware scsi driver but still same. The repair mode >> does not detect the drive installed with win2k. Is this related to oem >> and there's no way around? > > If you still have the source machine, I've had the best luck at > converting machines by installing the vmware converter and running it > locally, writing the image to a mapped drive and telling it to install > vmware tools in the copy. If the source has an oem recovery partition > you can omit that in the copy. > > -- > Les Mikesell > [email protected] > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate > GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the > lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: > http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo > _______________________________________________ > Clonezilla-live mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clonezilla-live > -- Regards, Umarzuki Mochlis http://debmal.my ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo _______________________________________________ Clonezilla-live mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clonezilla-live
