esxi 4: failed to load lvm driver

[riosibuea]

Hello,

I have a system with the following spec:

1. Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-G31M-ES2C

2. Processor: Intel Dual Core 2.5 GHz

3 Harddisk: 160GB

4. Memory: 2GB

When I boot the esxi 4 image from the CD drive, it always stops with message: "Failed to load lvm driver"

I have tried to disable the onboard NIC and/or USB Controller from the BIOS, but still no luck.

Please advise

Regards,

Rio

[Troy_Clavell]

3) During the install you get the error: Failed to load lvmdriver

Unlike ESXi 3.5, 4.0 will require that a compatible network card be present in the host during the install. The IP address that the host obtains is used to generate a unique identifier for the host. Without a NIC that ESXi can use, it will stop with the error: Failed to load lvmdriver. To resolve this add a NIC like the Intel Pro/1000 GT or look at VMware's HCL or the white box HCL.

found:

http://www.vm-help.com/esx40i/install_upgrade_issues.php

[pawan1703]

I am also facing the same problem. I tried by disabling the onboard LAN Card also. But still the same error.

Machine Configuration is :-

Make - Lenovo

Motherboard - G31T - LM

CPU - C2D 2.4 GHz

HDD - 160 GB

RAM - 2 GB

Please advise.

Pawan Yadav

[Texiwill]

Hello,

Moved to ESXi 4 forum.

Best regards,

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