Sean Wallbridge
Ok, so we just went through an exercise of moving off of VMWare Server 1.0.6 and onto VMware ESXi. Some pain during this exercise but mostly due to a corrupted VMDK (by the way, chkdsk /R, yes R”, not /F, did the trick on that one).
However, once the VMDK was cleaned up and successfully converted onto our shiny new ESXi host, the next issue was a big ugly black startup screen indicating that WINLOAD.EXE was missing.
Well, that was fine. I had the ISO for the Windows Server 2008 DVD, mounted that, booted the VM off of the ISO and performed the following using the command line repair tools.
- bootrec /RebuildBcd
- bootrec /FixMbr
Rebooted and voila, I have a server that is starting to respond!