Problems with the ESX 3.0.2-Installation

[DOSBOXJunkie]

Hi!

In our company we would like to have our servers virtualized. So we build up a rack with server for testing. All of the Servers are Fujitsu-Siemens RX100 machines (Intel Celeron 2 GHz, 512 MB Ram, Fasttrack IDE-RAID mirrored with 80 GB)

I tried to install the ESX 3.0.2 in the graphical mode. All worked quite well until the system reboots. Then I have choosen the first boot-option (Normal boot). So i have got this message:

BUSYBOX error; Cannot acceess tty; job control turend off

I have searched in this forum and I found a good thread, that would perhaps help me out. But I must boot wit the third boot option (This console only thing). But there I get this error message:

Creating block devices <--- quite okay... gg

VFS: Cannot open root device "UUID=some numbers" or 00:00

Please append a correct "root=" boot option

Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 00:00

Then some Hexdumps I think.

Can you help me please with this problems?

Thank you!

[oreeh]

You won't have much luck with these machines.

IDE disks are not supported and 512MB memory is far too low and I'm not sure if Celeron systems are a right decision either.

I strongly recommend getting a system that's listed in the HCL

[admin]

For the record I did an install of ESX on a pair of RX300 S3 FS Servers, worked pretty good, and are a competative price.

[oreeh]

I know that there are servers out there that are not on the HCL but work - besides the RX300S3 is on the HCL.