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Faellah Novice
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Aug 27, 2008 1:04 AM

ESXi on HP LH 3000 Install problem

 

Hi all,

 

 

I am trying to install ESXi 3.5 U2 on my old HP NetServer LH 3000.

The machine has a HP NetRAID Express 1si integrated RAID controller and that's more or less the problem with installing...

 

 

When the installer is started, the VMKernel is build. It tries to load the "megaraid2" driver and there it gets stuck! Installation is stranded here...

When I disable the raid function and turn it into a SCSI controller, the same thing happens, but now with the "aic7xxx" driver.

 

 

I searched on the forum and saw there were some probs with the I2O setting, enabled or disabled, nothing happened.

I also upgraded the firmware to 2.04 but nothing happened.

 

 

Has anyone any idea for solving this problem?

 

 

Thanks for any help!

 

 

Kind Regards,

 

 

Faellah

 

 

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1. Aug 27, 2008 5:27 AM in response to: Faellah
Re: ESXi on HP LH 3000 Install problem

If there's an option in the BIOS to disabled ACPI, you might try that.  I had a couple of older SuperMicro whitebox systems that were giving me trouble - the system would complain about not being able to assign an interrupt for each of the devices - and disabling ACPI worked perfectly.

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2. Aug 27, 2008 6:33 AM in response to: nick.couchman
Re: ESXi on HP LH 3000 Install problem

 

Thanx Nick!

 

 

There was no specific option called ACPI in the BIOS, but "smart" allocating IRQ option.

The option was "smart" (or automatic) and "fixed". I set it to fixed so no IRQ's would change and "Tada!".

 

 

Thanx again

 

 

Kind Regards,

 

 

Faellah

 

 

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3. Aug 27, 2008 4:10 PM in response to: Faellah
Re: ESXi on HP LH 3000 Install problem

Hello Faellah,  what sort of CPUs do you have in the host?  Just curious as a few of us our seeing how slow (old ) the CPUs can be and the leader right now is 900 MHz Xeons.

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4. Aug 28, 2008 3:50 AM in response to: Dave.Mishchen…
Re: ESXi on HP LH 3000 Install problem

 

Hi Dave,

 

 

Well... the server has 2 Pentium III 733 MHz processors and 1152 MB RAM

 

 

Going to run multiple Linux environments on there!

 

 

Kind Regards,

 

 

Faellah

 

 

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