Adaptec 3805 - Wont Boot

[Exie]

Hi Folks,

I've got a new box as follows:

Mothboard: Intel S3210SH

Case: Intel SC5299UP

Controller: Adaptec 3805

Drives: 4 x WD Black 1TB SATA (Raid 5)

I'm installing ESXi 4.0 build 146009 ... it installs find, but wont boot. It stops with the onscreen "Loading vfat" then errors out with:

"Failed to find boot partition"

I've tried disabling/enabling ACPI, disabling the on-board SATA controller etc. but still no joy. Any ideas ? ... everything appears to be on the HCL what am I missing to make this work ?

[Exie]

Just an update... I initially partitioned the raid set to 10GB for ESXi ... after reading a post that said ESXi needed at least this, I opened up the whole 2.7TB as one partition.....

I just re-created this as a 30GB partition and it installed sweet and boots fine!

[smdmitry]

Is VMDirectPath supported on this board (Intel S3210SHLC)?

[DSTAVERT]

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