EDIT: After some more snooping I saw this:
https://virtualkryptonite.blogspot.com/2017/07/vmware-converter-p2v-partition-number.html
(not sure what VG means in the post) but this is essentially what problems I had and what I need to do. I believe I have a ISO I can use to create a minimal install but then I get lost on steps 4 and 5).
What is VG, and how do I mount the disk from the cloned yet not finished VM) to the new minimal install one...
I converted an old physical machine to VMWare and it failed at 97% with an error because something to do with raid, though given this KB Article:
https://communities.vmware.com/t5/Converter-Standalone-Discussions/FAILED-An-error-occurred-during-the-conversion-Partition-number/td-p/454977
The conversion mostly should have the data there and all I have to do is setup grub. Having never done this I tried to tell the VM to boot into a rescue cd I found from:
https://archives.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/core/4/i386/iso/
Which is an old rescue cd I believe for this old fedora machine I am trying to convert.
I can have the VM boot into this rescue cd where I have to answer several question, it tries to mount automatically the linux install to /mnt/sysimage but never finds it and gives me a prompt.
In the prompt, I can see that the machine sees my linux os drive as sda1, i.e. if I type:
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/sysimage
It looks like my OS is there is in /mnt/sysimage
I try to do a
grub-install /dev/sda1
/sbin/grub is not found, then aha from this link:
Even though I can type grub and go into the grub prompt.
So maybe I have to do more in this grub prompt to make sure the /dev/sda1 can be the boot drive or what but grub from the prompt I am not sure what to do (apparently you can type ls from a grub prompt but this one just gives an unrecognized command, it is GNU GRBU 0.95
So not sure where to go from here?
I did see this post here:
GRUB does not load OS, displays grub> prompt
but following that didn't get far as they say from grub prompt to type linux and I get Unrecognized command each time I try that?
