Upgrade from ESX 3.5 to ESX 4.0 - driver problem.

[tim5700]

I have an ESX 3.5 host that I attempted to upgrade to ESX 4.0. During the upgrade process the ESX host rebooted and attempted to boot ESX 4.0. The host failed to boot because it could not find the local storage. It appears to be a driver issue. I have found the driver here:

http://www.vmware.com/support/vsphere4/doc/drivercd/esx40-scsi-bfa_400.1.1.1-1.0.4.html#partofnewesx

How do I get this driver installed on my ESX 4.0 instance?

[FranckRookie]

Hi,

Are you able to start the host in troubleshooting mode? If yes, you could try to use esxupdate method to install the driver from the CD as mentioned in the article you pointed to.

Good luck

Regards

Franck

[tim5700]

Yeah, no good. I can only boot to either:

ESX Upgrade

ESX Server

ESX Server (Debug)

Service console only (troubleshooting mode)

If I boot to troubleshooting mode it is ESX 3. When I run esxupdate, it says it cannot find "contents.xml.sig." There is no such file. I tried passing --nosigcheck, but no good.

[FranckRookie]

And if you boot in "ESX server" mode, do you start a 3.5 or a 4.0 host?

One solution could be to completely reinstall a new 4.0 over your crashed server, using the additional driver, without deleting the datastore...

No other idea for the moment.

Good luck.

Regards

Franck