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  • 1.  P2V Debian, native initrd patcher error

    Posted Jun 14, 2014 09:05 PM

    I'm attempting a P2V using the Converter Standalone, version 5.1.0 build-1087880 with a Debian 7 server.  I'm getting the following error message An error occurred during the conversion: 'native initrd patcher only supports Rhel, SLE, Ubuntu'


    Am I not able to use the P2V Converter with Debian?  Has anybody come across this error and found a workaround?


    Thanks,



  • 2.  RE: P2V Debian, native initrd patcher error

    Posted Jun 15, 2014 03:56 AM

    Any thoughts?



  • 3.  RE: P2V Debian, native initrd patcher error

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted Jun 16, 2014 08:39 AM

    Try with Converter 5.5.1

    HTH



  • 4.  RE: P2V Debian, native initrd patcher error

    Posted Jun 16, 2014 04:04 PM

    POCEH,

    Thanks for the reply!  I went ahead and updated the Converter to version 5.5.1 and I got the same error message.  Do I need to do something on the Linux end to allow this to work, or is this simply a compatibility issue?



  • 5.  RE: P2V Debian, native initrd patcher error

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted Jun 16, 2014 04:14 PM

    Unfortunately there is no universal method for all Linux distributions, so you need to do 'customization' on destination machine manually. I'll post the 'guide' shortly'.



  • 6.  RE: P2V Debian, native initrd patcher error

    Posted Jun 16, 2014 04:41 PM

    Thank you POCEH!



  • 7.  RE: P2V Debian, native initrd patcher error

    Posted Jun 16, 2014 04:41 PM

    Converter doesn't support Debian. It has a script to try reconfiguration for unsupported distros but it is RedHat based (I guess Debian's initrd build is not mkinitrd).

    Have a look at this post for the steps necessary to reconfigure manually: Re: Conversion fails with the error:FAILED: An error occurred during the conversion:'root is not found'

    HTH

    Plamen