VMware converter p2v from IDE to SCSI

My attempt to convert and old physical machine to an ESX environment was involving more work than I thought. Here is how I got it to boot after a number of kernel panics:

Old physical machine: IDE (hda1, hda2, hda3)

VM (converted): SCSI (sda1, sda2, sda3)

1 - I had to boot into rescue mode and edit /etc/modules.conf and add:  alias  scsi_hostadapter BusLogic

2 - Re-create initrd with: mkinitrd -v -f initrd-xxxx.img  xxxx (you should now what xxx stands for)

3 - Of course, re-install grub with grub-install

4 - Make sure grub.conf match the current hdd config (sda)

5 - Make sure my /etc/fstab converted to sda instead of sda stuff

6 - Modify ESX virtual hard disk to use BusLogic. VMware does not like this but it's the only way that I know the VM will boot.