Hello ,
I am using the evaluation version and using the hp xw4400 workstation box to install ESXi 4.0.
I am booting from the DVD drive , ESXi recognizes the SATA drives (2) connected.
I installed on the Drive 0. The installation is complete and when I reboot the screen shows booterror and stops.
This box has intel core2 duo 6300 . 2 GB RAM and 2 SATA discks.
The virtualization is enabled in BIOS.
Please help me .
Thanks and regards,
Manjuantha
maybe this document will be helpful?
Hi Troy Clavell ,
Thanks for the reply. The link you have posted is talking about Running Nested VMs.
I am just installing ESXI 4.0 and getting this error after installing and trying boot the machine.
Regards,
Manjuantha.V
Have you tried with just a single drive and what's the specific error that you get?
What mode is the SATA controller set to. You might also trying booting from a USB flash drive - www.vm-help.com
Hi Dave.Mishchenko ,
I am very dumb on hardware stuff ... This is first time I am doing an installation and stuff like this . Please bear with me.
I could not locate SATA controller on BIOS. I can see under storage options -> SATA emulation - > RAID + AHCI . Is this what you are asking for ?.
Regarding booting from USB flash drive, I have no issues in booting from CD-ROM and installing on to one of the disk. Its only after the installation these issues are cropping up.
Thanks a lot .
Regards,
Manjunatha.V
SATA emulation - > RAID + AHCI
Yes - so is that the current setting and what options do you have?
Regarding booting from USB flash drive
You can actually run ESXi from a USB flash drive and then just use the local HDs for storage of VMs.
Hi Dave.Mishchenko ,
Thanks for the directions ...
While looking for other options in emulator I can see AHCI, Seperate IDE controller and Combined IDE controller apart from RAID + AHCI.
When I selected AHCI he showed up primary and secondary disk's and I was able to disable secondory disk.
When I saved and rebooted .. ESXI came up !! nice to see this ... but said "Failed to find boot partition" and stopped ...
I will now re-install on the primary disk again and chek what 's happening ...
Thanks again ...for quick responses.
regards,
Manjunatha.V
Hi,
I disabled one secondary disk and installed ESXi on the primary.
After the installation the ESXi boots up and shows this message "Failed to find boot partition" and stops.
Any clue ?
Regards,
Manjunatha.v
You might also try it in IDE mode (see instructions on vm-help.com for "IDE" installs) and I would wipe the partitions on both drives before you install again. When you do have the ESXi install running, can you switch to the console (ALT+F1 - user is root password is blank) and then fdisk -l to see what disks ESXi is able to see
Hi,
I will try this out. Can you please tell me how can I format or wipe the disk partitions . Since there is no OS installed how can I do this?.
Regards,
Manjunatha.V
You can use a Linux live CD for that.
Thanks a lot . I formatted the primary disk and installed the ESXI 4.0 on the secondary disk. It installed and booted properly .
To quickly summarize these are the steps I did to make ESXi 4.0 work on hp xw4400 with 2 SATA discks.
1)Set the SATA emulator to AHCI.
2)Format the Primary disk.
3)install the ESXi 4.0 on secondary disk.
Thats it .....it worked ...
thanks a ton for your help and guidance.
Regards,
Manjunatha.V