When you try to make a virtual server by switching from SCO OpenServer Smart Array controller system to ESX server, you may encounter certain problems. After setting your drives on the new system and restoring the data, when you attempt to boot your system, the process might fail. This behavior may make all your critical data inaccessible and cause serious data loss. To sort out such behavior of SCO OpenServer system, you should opt for SCO OpenServer Recovery.

When you switch to the virtual server, you can backup your data by creating images of every individual drive. But when you reboot the system after restoring data on the VM (Virtual Machine) hard drives; you may encounter the following error message:

“Not a directory

Boot not found

Cannot open

Stage 1 boot failure: error loading hd(40)/boot”

When you attempt to get past the boot process using boot/root disks, the process halts before INIT SINGLE USER MODE with the following error message:

“PANIC: exit – cannot exec /etc/init (PID 1) 0


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