Could not get network adaptor. - error
Created: 30 Nov 2008 | Updated: 21 May 2010 | 4 comments
When booting to the Recovery CD in a Hyper-V VM I am getting the error "Could not get a network adaptor". I have a known working network adaptor attached to the VM. I have tried it a few times with other adaptors attached to that VM but I can not get that VM with the restore CD booting to get on the network to read my backup images.
Has anyone else tried this?
Thanks,
JohnnyF
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Have you tired by adding a "Legacy Network Adapter"?
Can't see the forest for the trees!!! To busy verifying I had all my other ducks in a row.
The restore process is working. I will post my results and see if it works better than the P2V I tried.
Thanks,
JohnnyF
The Legacy Network Adapter allowed me to get the process started. However, once it was finished and the VM was rebooted I had a black screen with a flasing curser and nothing else.
Have to do some more research and see what else I can try.
The fact that I can not get any of these processes to works makes me leary of relying on BESR to make a working backup of the system. If it can't restore the backup to a VM or other hardware, it doesn't do me much good.
If anyone else out there has gotten it to restore a system to a VM I would really like to hear about it.
Thanks,
JohnnyF
If it is an option for you, open a support ticket and re-perform the restore opting not to reboot when it finishes. When the restore completes, while still in the recovery environment choose Utilities | Run support tool | Gather technical support information. Send in the restore logs that this generates to be reviewed.
Are you converting first and injecting into a Hyper-V guest OS or are you creating a blank guest OS and booting off the disk and mapping to a share to perform the restore; sounds like the latter. What is the emulation of your mass-storage controller that you are choosing?
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