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15. Feb 10, 2009 12:04 PM in response to: Neotwind
Re: Free ESXi on Intel Server Board S3210SLHC

Thanks. I got ESXi running on my xw4600 using this post just fine, but I have another problem.  The 4600 has 2 SATA cdrom drive in it, but I can't get either of them to be recognized in order to boot the installation media to install a new client.  I have tried everything I can think of.  Any one have a tip that would help me?

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16. Mar 3, 2009 11:13 AM in response to: Erik67
Re: Free ESXi on Intel Server Board S3210SLHC

 

Am I correct understanding, that the only way to get ESXi 3.5 working on S3210 is to patch simple.map and pci.ids and to have SATA switched to IDE in BIOS?

 

 

Is there any way to have SATA switched to AHCI? What about overal performance if IDE mode?

 

 

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17. Mar 3, 2009 1:21 PM in response to: aliv
Re: Free ESXi on Intel Server Board S3210SLHC

 

No, that is not the case.

 

 

You have two options:

 

 

SATA in IDE mode: Works out of the box, but only the last two SATA ports can be used.

 

 

SATA in AHCI mode: All six ports work, but you have to patch simple.map. If you want the correct device texts to be displayed, you can patch pci.ids as well.

 

 

I have not compared performance, but I am using four S3210SLHC in ACPI mode with good performance.

 

 

 

 

 

Erik

 

 

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18. Mar 3, 2009 2:17 PM in response to: Erik67
Re: Free ESXi on Intel Server Board S3210SLHC

Erik, thanks for reply. I've got oem.tgz from Dave's web site and patched it with my numbers 8086:2922. I've placed oem.tgz in to the root of ESXi ISO. When I boot in AHCI - it still can't see HDDs (doesn't matter which port it's connected to).

I though may be I need to change IDE to  ISCSI in TargetFilter.py, but that also didn't help.

Could you please briefly explain what exactly should I do in order to get it going? I'm booting from CD.

BTW -  when I run lspci -v I can see a kind of trimmed output - just the numbers without names. Strange - that is different from what I saw on M2N-SLI Deluxe - that shown all normal names of devices.

 

Thanks!

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19. Mar 14, 2009 8:32 AM in response to: KOAL
Re: Free ESXi on Intel Server Board S3210SLHC

 

Hi,

 

 

 

 

 

I have a HP xw4600, but somehow I am not able to : "logon local on ESXi with Alt-F1 and "unsupported"

 

 

I boot from usb and when i try to use ALT-F1 i see a console screen with (last) message: Starting openwsmand

 

 

When i start ESXi from cd i can get to the console!

 

 

Any suggestions?

 

 

Thanks

 

 

Hwl

 

 

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20. Mar 16, 2009 4:46 PM in response to: hwl2009
Re: Free ESXi on Intel Server Board S3210SLHC

 

There two options possible:

 

 

1. Either you just see something, but when you click Enter it shows you password - then press Enter again and you will see command prompt

 

 

2.  Or you when you click Enter - you see nothing. Then just type "unsupported" in small case nothing more and you will see prompt for login and password

 

 

Hope this helps.

 

 

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