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mrc013
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‎06-02-2016 09:48 PM

ESXi hangs when booting at "Initialzing storage stack"

I asked this on /r/vmware before but I'll also ask this here.

Okay so I have a small homelab where I run a few VMs on my ESXi box. I have added some extra hardware that I wanted to Pass-through to a VM and realised it didn't support VT-d in the BIOS. I contacted Gigabyte and they sent me a version of the BIOS where I could enable VT-d. I have tried absolutely everything to get it to boot correctly after the BIOS update to no avail.

Does anyone have an tips on how I can resolve this?

The Motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-P55-USB3 with an i7 860.

Thanks in advance.

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Nick_Andreev
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‎06-03-2016 03:50 AM

So what exactly is the issue. You cannot boot after the BIOS upgrade. Or you can boot the host, but cannot enable VMDirectPath I/O?

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LucianoPatrão
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‎06-03-2016 03:54 AM

Hi,

Where do you have your ESXi installed?? Local disks?? USB??

Try this: BIOS > Boot > CSM Parameters and set “Launch CSM” to Disabled

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