So I built this nice little quad core 8gb ram ESX box and used an off the shelf PERC 3/DC Ultra160 RAID controller.. nice device... I have a PERC4 on the way to get Ultra320 speeds off my drives but i am experimenting this week on getting things going...
I have 6 drives in this machine.
2x36gb ultra320 drives that i have built a mirror in the PERC mgmt console.
4x74gb ultra320 drives that i built a RAID5 array with for running vm's from
I cannot (repeat cannot) get ESX to boot after installing to the mirror set. It sees the PERC (megaraid2) controller and all seems fine.. i see the partition, install, blah blah blah.. on boot it scrolls through the POST and the logical drives appear in the PERC portion of the boot process and then when it hits what appears to be LILO it just sits there.. small prompt in the upper left hand corner... nothing else... wondering if i should head in and format or initialize the mirror set again or even go so far as to booting the drives on my adaptec controller and doing a format to make sure there is nothing left on the boot sector???
I have set the Logical Drive 0 as the boot drive in the PERC setup (0 is the mirror set)
I also have the lastest PERC3 firmware as well...
anyone seen this?