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uhoh
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ESXi 5.5 crashes at boot with pink screen

I had problems with VMs which let me reboot the host.

Then I got a pink screen while booting. I assumed HD

errors, but disk check gave no errors. Then I copied

the HDD to another one without errors, but the new copy

crashes as well.

Any hints are welcome, Thanks in advance.

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vNEX
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Hi,

follow the steps in this KB article:

VMware KB: ESXi installation fails with a purple diagnostic screen error: NOT_IMPLEMENTED bora/vmker...

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uhoh
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Hi,

and thanks for your answer. But I think it is not the solution in my case.

It was no fresh installation, but was running for months (years?).

A fresh installation will destroy the settings at least, and the VMs on

that disk as well, i believe. I hope to be able to preserve or restore the

settings.

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