I'm using ESX 3.5i Update 2 on my Dell PowerEdge SC440 (as a test server - my production servers are all Dell PE2850/PE2950, which are listed in the HCL). When I attempt to install Update 3 (build 123629), I get the error "Unable to find a supported device to write the VMware ESX Server 3.1 3.5.0 image to".
fdisk -l (in Tech Support Mode) shows:
Disk /dev/disks/vmhba1:0:0:0: 250.0 GB
| Device |
Boot |
Start |
End |
Blocks |
Id |
System |
| /dev/disks/vmhba1:0:0:1 |
|
5 |
750 |
763904 |
5 |
Extended |
| /dev/disks/vmhba1:0:0:2 |
|
751 |
4845 |
4193280 |
6 |
FAT16 |
| /dev/disks/vmhba1:0:0:4 |
* |
1 |
4 |
4080 |
4 |
FAT16 <32M |
| /dev/disks/vmhba1:0:0:5 |
|
5 |
52 |
49136 |
6 |
FAT16 |
| /dev/disks/vmhba1:0:0:6 |
|
53 |
100 |
49136 |
6 |
FAT16 |
| /dev/disks/vmhba1:0:0:7 |
|
101 |
210 |
112624 |
fc |
VMKcore |
| /dev/disks/vmhba1:0:0:8 |
|
211 |
750 |
552944 |
6 |
FAT16 |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Partition table entries are not in disk order
I did have datastore 1 using the remainder of this disk, but I removed it after the first failure (moved all the VMs to datastore 2, which is currently off-line so as not to interfere with the install).
Everything looks fine - the Update just doesn't like something (and I can't tell what it doesn't like).
The system is running in 4GB of RAM on a Pentium Xeon 3050 @ 2.13GHz.
Anyone have any ideas?
