Hello, I had to restart my esxhost today and it's not starting anymore.
I got a fata error 33 error loadin /b.b00
I would like to copy the corrupted file from an other esx host running fine.
Could you help as I don't know to boot from live cd (which one) and mount the root as read write access to copy the file from usb ?
any chance with fsck ?
I'm running esx 6.0.0
thank you for your help
regards.
Hi,
Can you share the error screenshot ?
What boot medium is used by ESXi OS ?
I have not used fsck yet so cannot say if it works or not.
You can use one of below options for your issue:
1. Replace the file by mounting the any linux distribution live CD, like Ubuntu. Download the ISO, mount it through remote console (ILO for HPE servers, idrac for Dell servers). Have the required file copied to USB drive and inserted into the empty USB port on physical server beforehand. Set the boot to CD/DVD drive and boot from ISO. Once ISO boots, use the GUI to copy the files from USB to required ESXi partition folder. This may or may not work.
2. Recovery Mode - Press Shift and R at ESXi Boot, if you have ever upgraded ESXi, you will be able to rollback, to the previous version, and then upgrade again.
3. Re-install ESXi. When re-installing, it will discover the older installation, and ask to upgrade or re-install, if you perform a re-install it will discover the existing VMFS partition, and ask you if you want to PRESERVE, select YES, and this will keep all your VMs, and then later at power on, just re-register the VMs with Inventory, which is browse the datastore, browse the folder, select the VMX file, Right Click and select Register VM.
Sources:
a. vmware esxi - error loading /scsi-qla.v01, fatal error:33 - Server Fault
b. http://robwillis.info/2018/04/esxi-6-5-error-loading-xorg-v00-fatal-error-33-inconsistent-data/
Hello, thank you for your help. here is the print screen.
What's the status of your issue ? Did you get the ESXi back on ?
