VMware Communities: VMware ESX 3.5 Install/Upgrade reboot error "Mounting root failed."

Reply Re: VMware ESX 3.5 Install/Upgrade reboot error "Mounting root failed." Feb 10, 2008 3:11 PM

DeGreat 3 posts since
Feb 1, 2006

I had the same issue. I have a PE2600 with Perc 4Di. I had the latest firmware ans was getting the same error. I rolled back the FW to the following and 3.5 works great.

http://support.us.dell.com/support/downloads/download.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=gen&releaseid=R71754&formatcnt=5&libid=0&fileid=93120

Let me know if this helped.

Attachments:

perc4di-pe2600-248-A14.exe (1.1 MB)

Reply Re: VMware ESX 3.5 Install/Upgrade reboot error "Mounting root failed." Mar 9, 2008 12:44 AM

in response to: C.Ruhnke

cybermage 4 posts since
Sep 28, 2006

Running firmware 199A does indeed allow 3.5 to boot and appear to be working.

I have however another problem. If I install 2-3 VMs on the local VMFS it works fine. Any subsequent VMs seem to get disk corruption.

I would run chkdsk on a VM and it would find errors, it will then repair and if I run chkdsk again it will again find errors, the errors are also not the same.

I have tried creating new VMs, restore exising VMs, nothing seem to work part around 2-3 VMs.

3.0.2 works just fine, Even VMs that seem to have corruption work if I leave the VMFS volume intact when downgrading from 3.5 to 3.0.2.

Rolling back to 3.0.2 again.

Reply Re: VMware ESX 3.5 Install/Upgrade reboot error "Mounting root failed." Mar 10, 2008 9:59 AM

in response to: cybermage

DeGreat 3 posts since
Feb 1, 2006

I have only 2 VMs on my PE2600. They are in production. I would love to add couple of more to test. The VMs that are getting corrupted are the new VMs or the old VMs?

Reply Re: VMware ESX 3.5 Install/Upgrade reboot error "Mounting root failed." Mar 10, 2008 11:26 AM

in response to: DeGreat

Rkelly 40 posts since
May 26, 2005

I was able to get mine working. Call technical support. Apperently in the ESX 3.5 Build I had there was an RPM that did not run during the upgrade. VMWare has since released a new build that corrects this problem.

Reply Re: VMware ESX 3.5 Install/Upgrade reboot error "Mounting root failed." Mar 11, 2008 2:17 AM

in response to: DeGreat

cybermage 4 posts since
Sep 28, 2006

I tried it with both existing and new VM's. I have rebuild the server between each test.

Also installing 3.0.2 over 3.5 and only keeping the VMFS then those VMs work again.. It is really strange.

I have actually installed the latest iso thinking that it might have to do with the rpm issue, but it wasn't.

Reply Re: VMware ESX 3.5 Install/Upgrade reboot error "Mounting root failed." Oct 21, 2008 10:32 PM

in response to: Svante

shaymandel 1 posts since
Oct 21, 2008

I ran into the same issue, with ESX 3.5, running a HP Proliant DL 145, 2 CPUs with 4GB RAM. I have tried starting in troubleshooting mode, and got this error:

Initialization of vmkernel failed, status 0xbad0013

I found a solution for this here: http://www.shocknetwork.com/forum/vmware-discussion-f20/esx-vmkernel-doesn-load-0xbad0013-t89.html

and followed the description there, which said that the DIMM memory cards should be installed as 2 per each CPU, and not 4 for one CPU. This solved my issue.

I am posting this here, as the initial issue I saw was Mounting Root Failed and I invested quite some time following the messages in this thread without luck, and with a lot of work.

I hope this will help some more people.

Reply Re: VMware ESX 3.5 Install/Upgrade reboot error "Mounting root failed." Sep 14, 2009 7:25 PM

in response to: sthoppay_wipro

cheipler 2 posts since
Jun 9, 2008

I had a similar issue today after updating the ql4xmaxqdepth setting for my QLogic 4062's on 2 of my ESX boxes. After rebooting I was getting the "Mounting root failed". Ended up rebooting into troubleshooting mode and then removing the last line in the /etc/vmware/esx.conf file, which referenced the setting changes I had made (looked something like "vmkernel....esxcfg-module -options ql4xmaxqdepth=200........").

Anyway hope that helps someone now I have to find out what the proper value is seeing how the EqualLogic documents say it should be 200.

Reply Re: VMware ESX 3.5 Install/Upgrade reboot error "Mounting root failed." Sep 15, 2009 2:53 AM

tom howarth 7,299 posts since
Jul 25, 2005 Moderator

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