ESXi 3.5 Update 2 on Dell PowerEdge SC1425? Install Boot CD options/parameters?

[hkawamorita]

Gentlemen,

Is there anyway I can install ESXi 3.5 Update 2 in Dell PowerEdge SC1425 (Dell URL: http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/SC1425/en/ug/f3593aa0.htm#wp1053748 ) ?

What are the bootable install CD options/parameters?

It seems it does not like the Hard Drives or their controllers, I can not see the entire error message.

Here is all what I got:

isolinux: Disk error 01, AX = 4200, drive 82...

Boot failed: press a key to retry

And these are my PCI IDs:

\# lspci

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation E7520 Memory Controller Hub (rev 09)

00:02.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation E7525/E7520/E7320 PCI Express Port A (rev 09)

00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)

00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)

00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02)

00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev c2)

00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 02)

00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) IDE Controller (rev 02)

00:1f.2 RAID bus controller: Intel Corporation 82801ER (ICH5R) SATA Controller (rev 02)

01:00.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6700PXH PCI Express-to-PCI Bridge A (rev 09)

01:00.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6700PXH PCI Express-to-PCI Bridge B (rev 09)

02:04.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82541GI Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 05)

04:03.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82541GI Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 05)

04:0d.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon RV100 QY

Any help will be much appreciated.

Thanks,

[tomicles]

On my SC1425 the VI client shows the following for storage controllers

82801EB (ICH5) SATA Controller

--> vmhba1 SCSI

--> vmhba32 SCSI

82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) IDE Controller

--> vmhba0 Block SCSI

Hope this helps.

[Dave_Mishchenko]

Thanks.

[piotrmikula]

Hello

I just got SC1425 to put ESXi on, but I'm getting Panic Error right after the install starts and says that can't read the .tgz file.

Could this be due to the fact the mobo has only CERC Sata controller?

I was hoping I can use this server but it looks like having more problems again

Any advice will be very apreciated

-Peter

[crstek07]

I was looking at buying this same server ..... Did you get this resolved?