I have having difficulty searching for my Supermicro system board in the HCL. I own system board X7DWT, and it has run ESX 3.5 without errors. I tried to upgrade it to ESX 4.0U1. It failed and could not roll back. The following error appeared on its console:
driver loading complete
couldnot restore /boot/grub/grub.conf.esx3, upgrade failure will not reboot to ESX3
installation aborted
error: cannot find device for UUIS: ...
press <return> to reboot...
I tried installing ESXi 4.0U1, but the storage attached to the Adaptec 3405 (which is listed in the HCL)was not found.
When I try searching for the Supermicro board for any version of ESX, it is not found. Interestingly, when I search for any Supermicro board, I cannot match any known board in the results. I wonder if there is a trick to searching for Supermicro boards in the HCL, such as a different model number. Any ideas?
Link to my system board: http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon1333/5400/X7DWT.cfm
