Problem installing ESXi 5.5u2 on X99s Mpower

[WHW1980]

Hi everyone,

I'm having problems installing ESXi 5.5 u2 on an X99S MPower MSI motherboard.

The issues:

Initially failed on "Out of resources" when loading tools.t00 (Think it has been resolved by loading from a USB (used UNetbootin to create it) instead of a CD. Also updated sata-xahci-1.10-1.x86_64.vib)

Now system crashes just after loading /imgpayld.tgz with error "failed to resolve circular relocation"

System is as follows:

MSI X99S MPower mobo

I7-5960x extreme CPU

64GB DDR4 2133 RAM

10 * 6TB WD Red

enabled onboard RAID5 with 6 of the HDD.

Thats it.

I've tried the following as well:

Re-downloading all the ISO images

Installing Esxi 5.0 (PSOD just after "Initializing memory") - VMWARE-ESXi-5.0.0-Rollup-20111216.iso

Installing Esxi 5.1 (PSOD just after "Initializing memory" as above)  -VMware-VMvisor-Installer-201210001-838463.x86_64.iso

and 5.5 (error described above)-VMware-VMvisor-Installer-201501001-2403361.x86_64.iso

Searching for esxi driver updates relating to x99 chipset and Intel ICh10r but found none

Any help is much appreciated and needed!

[raisalkh]

i have same issue any solution got, pls share me,

Raisal

raisalkh@gmail.com

[WHW1980 · Accepted solution]

Hi everyone

I managed to solve it in a round-about way.

I gave up on the mobo/cpu/ram combination and swapped the board,ram and cpu out for another I7 core with 32gb ddr3 Ram.

During installation of ESXI on this other setup (motherboard is  GA-X79-UD3) I found out that ESXI doesn't pick up the software raid as created by the mobo bios, and so I purchased an Intel RS2WG160 raid controller and battery, updated the intel RAID BIOS, set up the raid as I needed and installed ESXI without any problems (after downloading the latest VIB for the sata from http://www.v-front.de/2013/11/how-to-make-your-unsupported-sata-ahci.html, and the VIB files on offer from the Intel support site)

Once I had installed ESXi, I decided to try swapping the GA-X79-UD3 mobo,ram and cpu out with my original configuration (being the X99s MPower, DDR4 RAM and I7 5960X CPU)

, but without re-installing ESXI.

It worked perfectly for me at that point

Bottom line - install the ESXI using a different mobo,cpu and ram, then swap those out and reboot.

Hope that helps others