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  • 1.  BOOTMGR Missing

    Posted Apr 29, 2009 05:01 PM

    After converting Server 2008 I receive "BOOTMGR missing press any key to restart" When attempting to start the VM. I have attempted numerous disk configurations during the conversion process, always with the same result. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. This is from a thread started under the beta process. Which can be viewed here . I believe this has been duplicated at vmware and may be fixed in the next release. I was wondering if there was a workaround?

    Thanks in advance.



  • 2.  RE: BOOTMGR Missing

    Posted Apr 29, 2009 08:52 PM

    It can't find where to boot...

    Try with Gparted. Download the lastest iso of it, and attach it to the CD of that VM, and make it boot to it.

    Select the drive that should be bootable, and add the flag "boot" to it, and apply the changes. That should change that drive to be bootable. After which, run Converter "configure machine" against this system. After that, try to boot it again.



  • 3.  RE: BOOTMGR Missing

    Posted Apr 30, 2009 02:42 PM

    Hi,

    Thanks for the response. I did what you suggested and when I attempt to configure the machine with converter I get "Reconfiguration is not supported for the selected source". In Gparted If I set either sda1 or sda2 to be boot I still get BOOTMGR missing.



  • 4.  RE: BOOTMGR Missing

    Posted May 13, 2009 04:36 PM

    I am receiving this error on all factory (Dell) Installed Server 2008 machines and I have tried numerous approaches with numerous machines using gparted to no avail. Does anyone have any other suggestions or is it possible to get a beta release of an upcoming release that may resolve this issue?

    Thanks in advance.



  • 5.  RE: BOOTMGR Missing

    Posted May 13, 2009 05:46 PM

    read http://www.multibooters.co.uk/cloning.html

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  • 6.  RE: BOOTMGR Missing

    Posted May 17, 2009 09:18 PM

    Thanks for the help. A combination of the 2 suggestions worked.

    • 1) Convert the machine.

    • 2) Boot to Gparted and set the boot partition.

    • 3) Boot to a Windows Vista iso and select repair.

    • a. It will find errors and ask for reboot.

    • 4) Boot to the Vista iso again and select repair.

    • a. Select startup repair.

    • b. The machine will boot at this point but you will not get a shell

    • 5) Boot to the Server 2008 iso and select repair then command prompt and run the following command.

    • a. sfc /SCANNOW /OFFBOOTDIR=c:\ /OFFWINDIR=c:\windows

    • 6) Shut down and select configure machine from Converter.

    • 7) Boot the VM.

    Thanks again for the help.