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gunnarb
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After upgrade to ESXi 4.1 system hangs at "cbt loaded successfully"

I've done a lot of searching on this and found that this is a known issue.  However the VMWare provided work around is to change the Scsi.CRTimeoutDuringBoot value to 10000.  I have done this but it does not fix my issue.

I found this thread very helpful as it sounds like many others have this issue:

http://communities.vmware.com/thread/279042?start=15&tstart=0

However it doesn't fully explain, or resolve, my issue.  I have a very simple setup.  I have a mobile lab that I use to demostrate ESX technologies.  I had this all booting off a ESXi 4.0 USB stick and it worked fine.  After upgrading to ESXi 4.1 its not stuck at "cbt loaded successfully".  I do not have shared storage, I just have an internal SATA drive that is my datastore.  So, ESXi resides on the USB stick and the SATA drive is the datastore.  Nothing shared.  If I unplug the SATA it boots ups (a bit slow but it boots).  When I plug it back in, it just hangs there, I left it on this screen for hours and it never moves.  I changed the value listed above and I get the same results.

I'd really like to demo ESXi 4.1 but apparently ESXi 4.0 is the only working version for my lab.  Is there a solution to this problem yet?

-Gunnar

Gunnar Berger http://www.gunnarberger.com http://www.endusercomputing.com
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DSTAVERT
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Things get removed from the supported hardware list from version to version. Make sure that your hardware is on the HCL. Try a fresh install to a new stick.

-- David -- VMware Communities Moderator
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