Fresh 4.0 ESXi Install Problems

[3pointtech]

DL360 G6 out of the box. Burned 4.0 Update 1 ISO to cd. Installed just fine and after reboot I keep getting:

Attempted to Boot from CD-ROM

Attempting to Boot From Hard Drive (C:)

SYS Linux 3.63 0x48efda77 EBIOS Copyright (C) 1994-2008 H. Peter Anvin

Boot: _

That's all I get on the prompt.

Thanks

[AndreTheGiant]

Do you have a SAN? In this case maybe you have installed the hypervison on the SAN disks.

Try also the HP version for ESXi that will provide the right drivers:

Andre

[3pointtech]

No SAN, just installing on an array control in the DL360. Pretty simple set up. Looking for HP download nw.

[a_p_]

There were some issues with the embedded P410i and other controller.

The issue has been resolved in firmware version 2.50 of the storage controller.

see http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1014611 for details.

André

[3pointtech]

I'm not sure which direction to go at this point. Just found this on Experts-Exchange. Anyone ran in to this before? Basically I have the press ENTER after every reboot or it never loads in to the HYPERVISOR.

From Experts-Exchange:

I have only 2 drives in each DL385G6 running in RAID1 (mirrored). I think this may have to do something with no timeout set in the syslinux.cfg file. I'm going to try to boot from an Ubuntu Live CD to see if there's a syslinux.cfg on the RAID array to set these options in, if the drive is mountable using Ubuntu Live.

Ok, so I ran the Ubuntu Live CD and ran a sudo nautilus.

I browsed to the Hypervisor 0 partitions and saw the syslinux.cfg file.

I opened the file with Text Editor and saw 1 line: default safeboot.c32

I change the file to look like the code shown here and viola! The trick she is done, ESXi pauses at the boot: prompt for about 5 seconds and then continues on it's merry way.

Thanks for all the help!

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default safeboot.c32

timeout 50

totaltimeout 500

prompt 0