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rhoks
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Failed to find boot partition!

i have trouble with my esxi 4.0. after loading i got error message "Failed to find boot partition" the last thing i did is add devices for passthrough then i got this error please help. here is screen shoot....tnx

Rhoks

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Dave_Mishchenko
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Could you try this if you think the boot device has been inadvertently enabled for VMDirectPath - http://www.vm-help.com/esx40i/VMDirectPath/fix_config_issues.php#disable_boot.

Also on the intial boot screen for ESXi you can press Shift+R to revert to the prior version ESXi that was installed.  You would loose all configuration changes since the host was last patched.

rhoks
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Contributor

sir do you have another tool or process? my IBM x3250 M3 does not boot on CD i already configure the bios setting to boot 1st on cdrom drive.

thanks

rhoks

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Dave_Mishchenko
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Have you tried the shift+R option?

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