After Installing ESXi, Once pressed Alt + F1 blank screen

[MrVmware9423]

Dear team,

after installing ESXi , after pressing Alt + F1 blank screen, hence need ur assistance on the same.

regards

[HannuBalk · Accepted solution]

Hi,

You need to enable ESXi shell. You can do it on DCUI in "Troubleshooting Options" -> "Enable ESXi Shell".

Hannu

[MrVmware9423]

But how to access DCUI... as I am only able to see this screen.

[HannuBalk]

F2 to login.

[rachelsg]

Hi

Welcome to the communities.

Will you please follow below links.You might be get help.

http://www.vm-help.com/esx/esx3i/ESXi_install_to_IDE_drive/ESXi_install_to_IDE_drive.php

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

[dospavlos]

Having this issue with ESXi shell ENABLED in Troubleshooting Options.  After hitting Alt-F1, screen displays 'ESXi 5.50 http://www.vmware.com Copyright 2007-2014 VMware, Inc.' but login prompt never appears.

[dospavlos]

Fixed by changing shell timeout value which was set too low.

In vsphere client, go to Configuration > Advanced Settings > UserVars

Change UserVars.ESXiShellInteractiveTimeOut

Change UserVars.ESXiShellTimeOut

[kurtd]

Same issue here in esxi 6.7 as shown in the first screenshot in this thread.  I'm stuck on the copyright screen after pressing Alt + F1 and can't get out of it.  It's been on that screen for over 24 hours now.

I set both of these to 10 seconds but it's not helping even after running this command to restart services /sbin/services.sh restart

Change UserVars.ESXiShellInteractiveTimeOut

Change UserVars.ESXiShellTimeOut

Is there anything else I can try besides restarting the host?

[ITGuy_At_ThePla]

Legend. Thanks from me many years later...