DING!!! Round 2...Lets get it on!

[dtdionne]

Shew....ok, what's this?

cant access tty; job control turned off[/b]

Mobo: Tyan S2882-D

CPU: Dual/Dual Core Opteron

Mem: 8G

Storage: LSI MegaRaid 300-8XLP

Drives: 6 500GB WD5000YS

VGA: ATI Rage

LAN: 2 10/100/1000 Broadcom, 1 10/100 Intel, 2 10/100/1000 Intel based Riverbed CMP-00028 PCI-X, 2 10/100/1000 Intel based Riverbed CMP-00028 PCI-X

SMDC: Tyan 2839 Daughter Board, BMC FW 01.73, IPMI FW 1.51

During the install I had to specify the Raid driver but it found the Array and I let it configure the layout. I get the above message when I boot into ESX and ESX Debug. I am able to boot without a hitch, into the Service Console Troubleshooting Mode.

In debug mode, I saw that it said that it could not mount root....ill post more info later, i need a break...

[wila]

Don't know, but do check the firmware of those WD drives.. there's a firmware problem with disks below a certain firmware version where they can drop out of a raid set.

See WD YS firmware upgrade[/url]

For a 500GB disk the minimum firmware version on your disk should be: Revision 09.02E09[/b]

[dtdionne]

Checked the drives, they are fine...

Anyone else? Ive done a bit of searching and while it seems to be somewhat of a common occurance, I have yet to find anything in the right direction...

[wila]

Can you ssh into the machine?

Have you taken a look at the logfiles in /var/log (tip: if you can't get in then try a knoppix CD or something like that)

If the system cannot mount the root partition i try a reinstall as the first thing.

Currently your error message isn't really that helpful (hey i have no screen... guess what my problem is...)

[dtdionne]

Hey wila, yeah, like I said I can boot perfectly fine into the "Service Console (troubleshooting)" Label which is the standard Linux in previous versions of ESX. I will post some logs.....

[dtdionne]

Hey guys, in an effort to get some relevent logs, I too the following steps

1. I went in and cleared dmesg, /var/log/message and like 4 other log files.

2. I rebooted the machine and let it boot to the error message.

3. I waited 10 min so that there would be a noticable gap in the logs.

4. I rebooted into the troubleshooting mode.

5. I went into the logs and NOTHING was logged from the time I booted up in the normal mode, the only logs that were there were from the time i booted up in troubleshooting mode.

What do i need to do?

[wila]

Reinstall ESX and keep your vmfs partitions if you already have some?

Um, the error you mentioned in the OP, is explained here[/url] and here too[/url]

This together with your other problems leads me to think that ESX isn't able to mount the disk properly. Did you specify custom partitioning?

[Paul_Lalonde]

It does sound as if ESX didn't install a vmkernel device driver for your disk controller. The initial ESX installation works because at that point it's just a standard RedHat kernel running (and standard Linux device drivers work) but once you boot into a vmkernel-enabled mode, the drivers that get loaded up in the initrd image either 1) aren't present for your controller, or 2) don't work with your card.

Can you boot into the Service Console Troubleshooting mode and post the output of:

lspci

lspci -v

lsmod

cat /etc/vmware/esx.conf

We may have to make some changes to get the ESX vmkernel to "see" your specific adapter.

Paul

[Paul_Lalonde]

A quick glance of the HCL shows that this specific card isn't present. In other words, "recognition" of it hasn't been included into the vmkernel disk device driver configuration files.

Along the same lines, though, support for the 150-4, 150-6 and 300-x cards isn't present on the HCL but they generally can be made to work by adding the PCI bus/slot/function ID into the device mapping files for ESX. These adapters typically use the megaraid driver.

Once you've posted the output from the above commands, we can take this further.

Regards,

Paul

[dtdionne]

Hey wila, no I let it do all of the partitioning, in fact it was a very bland install and I can boot into standard linux just fine...although I have noticed that kudzu finds and configures the same hardware each time. I will check out those links now.

Hey Paul, thanks for chiming in, rest assured that I will not make the same mistake twice :). Yeah, during the install it didn't detect the raid card so I manually added the megaraid driver and that's when it saw the array - anyway here is the info you asked for, and thanks again Paul.

anyway, here is the output of those commands:

\[root@slammer root]# lspci

00:06.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices \[AMD] AMD-8111 PCI (rev 07)

00:07.0 ISA bridge: Advanced Micro Devices \[AMD] AMD-8111 LPC (rev 05)

00:07.1 IDE interface: Advanced Micro Devices \[AMD] AMD-8111 IDE (rev 03)

00:07.2 SMBus: Advanced Micro Devices \[AMD] AMD-8111 SMBus 2.0 (rev 02)

00:07.3 Bridge: Advanced Micro Devices \[AMD] AMD-8111 ACPI (rev 05)

00:0a.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices \[AMD] AMD-8131 PCI-X Bridge (rev 12)

00:0a.1 PIC: Advanced Micro Devices \[AMD] AMD-8131 PCI-X APIC (rev 01)

00:0b.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices \[AMD] AMD-8131 PCI-X Bridge (rev 12)

00:0b.1 PIC: Advanced Micro Devices \[AMD] AMD-8131 PCI-X APIC (rev 01)

00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices \[AMD] K8 \[Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration

00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices \[AMD] K8 \[Athlon64/Opteron] Address MapK8 NorthBridge

00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices \[AMD] K8 \[Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller

00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices \[AMD] K8 \[Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control

00:19.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices \[AMD] K8 \[Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration

00:19.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices \[AMD] K8 \[Athlon64/Opteron] Address MapK8 NorthBridge

00:19.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices \[AMD] K8 \[Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller

00:19.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices \[AMD] K8 \[Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control

01:03.0 Ethernet controller: Silicom Ltd: Unknown device 0028 (rev 01)

01:03.1 Ethernet controller: Silicom Ltd: Unknown device 0028 (rev 01)

01:04.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 0335 (rev 0a)

01:05.0 Ethernet controller: Silicom Ltd: Unknown device 0028 (rev 01)

01:05.1 Ethernet controller: Silicom Ltd: Unknown device 0028 (rev 01)

02:0e.0 RAID bus controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic: Unknown device 0409 (rev 0a)

03:09.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5704 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 03)

03:09.1 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5704 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 03)

04:00.0 USB Controller: Advanced Micro Devices \[AMD] AMD-8111 USB (rev 0b)

04:00.1 USB Controller: Advanced Micro Devices \[AMD] AMD-8111 USB (rev 0b)

04:06.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage XL (rev 27)

04:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82557/8/9 \[Ethernet Pro 100] (rev 10)

\[root@slammer root]# lspci -v

00:06.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices \[AMD] AMD-8111 PCI (rev 07) (prog-if 00 \[Normal decode])

Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 64

Bus: primary=00, secondary=04, subordinate=04, sec-latency=64

I/O behind bridge: 00009000-0000bfff

Memory behind bridge: fca00000-feafffff

Capabilities: \[c0] #08 \[0086]

Capabilities: \[f0] #08 \[8000]

00:07.0 ISA bridge: Advanced Micro Devices \[AMD] AMD-8111 LPC (rev 05)

Subsystem: Advanced Micro Devices \[AMD] AMD-8111 LPC

Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 0

00:07.1 IDE interface: Advanced Micro Devices \[AMD] AMD-8111 IDE (rev 03) (prog-if 8a \[Master SecP PriP])

Subsystem: Advanced Micro Devices \[AMD] AMD-8111 IDE

Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32

I/O ports at ffa0 \[size=16]

00:07.2 SMBus: Advanced Micro Devices \[AMD] AMD-8111 SMBus 2.0 (rev 02)

Subsystem: Advanced Micro Devices \[AMD] AMD-8111 SMBus 2.0

Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 17

I/O ports at cc00 \[size=32]

00:07.3 Bridge: Advanced Micro Devices \[AMD] AMD-8111 ACPI (rev 05)

Subsystem: Advanced Micro Devices \[AMD] AMD-8111 ACPI

Flags: medium devsel

00:0a.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices \[AMD] AMD-8131 PCI-X Bridge (rev 12) (prog-if 00 \[Normal decode])

Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 64

Bus: primary=00, secondary=03, subordinate=03, sec-latency=64

Memory behind bridge: fc900000-fc9fffff

Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000ff500000-00000000ff500000

Capabilities: \[a0] PCI-X non-bridge device.

Capabilities: \[b8] #08 \[8000]

Capabilities: \[c0] #08 \[004a]

00:0a.1 PIC: Advanced Micro Devices \[AMD] AMD-8131 PCI-X APIC (rev 01) (prog-if 10 \[IO-APIC])

Subsystem: Advanced Micro Devices \[AMD]: Unknown device 36c0

Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0

Memory at febff000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) \[size=4K]

00:0b.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices \[AMD] AMD-8131 PCI-X Bridge (rev 12) (prog-if 00 \[Normal decode])

Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 64

Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=02, sec-latency=64

I/O behind bridge: 00008000-00008fff

Memory behind bridge: fc500000-fc8fffff

Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000ff300000-00000000ff400000

Capabilities: \[a0] PCI-X non-bridge device.

Capabilities: \[b8] #08 \[8000]

00:0b.1 PIC: Advanced Micro Devices \[AMD] AMD-8131 PCI-X APIC (rev 01) (prog-if 10 \[IO-APIC])

Subsystem: Advanced Micro Devices \[AMD]: Unknown device 36c0

Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0

Memory at febfe000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) \[size=4K]

00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices \[AMD] K8 \[Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration

Flags: fast devsel

Capabilities: \[80] #08 \[2101]

Capabilities: \[a0] #08 \[2101]

Capabilities: \[c0] #08 \[2101]

00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices \[AMD] K8 \[Athlon64/Opteron] Address MapK8 NorthBridge

Flags: fast devsel

00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices \[AMD] K8 \[Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller

Flags: fast devsel

00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices \[AMD] K8 \[Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control

Flags: fast devsel

00:19.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices \[AMD] K8 \[Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration

Flags: fast devsel

Capabilities: \[80] #08 \[2101]

Capabilities: \[a0] #08 \[2101]

Capabilities: \[c0] #08 \[2101]

00:19.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices \[AMD] K8 \[Athlon64/Opteron] Address MapK8 NorthBridge

Flags: fast devsel

00:19.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices \[AMD] K8 \[Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller

Flags: fast devsel

00:19.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices \[AMD] K8 \[Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control

Flags: fast devsel

01:03.0 Ethernet controller: Silicom Ltd: Unknown device 0028 (rev 01)

Subsystem: Silicom Ltd: Unknown device 0028

Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 20

Memory at fc8c0000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) \[size=128K]

I/O ports at 8880 \[size=64]

Capabilities: \[dc] Power Management version 2

Capabilities: \[e4] PCI-X non-bridge device.

Capabilities: \[f0] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit+ Queue=0/0 Enable-

01:03.1 Ethernet controller: Silicom Ltd: Unknown device 0028 (rev 01)

Subsystem: Silicom Ltd: Unknown device 0028

Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 21

Memory at fc8e0000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) \[size=128K]

I/O ports at 8c00 \[size=64]

Capabilities: \[dc] Power Management version 2

Capabilities: \[e4] PCI-X non-bridge device.

Capabilities: \[f0] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit+ Queue=0/0 Enable-

01:04.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 0335 (rev 0a) (prog-if 00 \[Normal decode])

Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 64

Bus: primary=01, secondary=02, subordinate=02, sec-latency=64

Memory behind bridge: fc500000-fc7fffff

Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000ff300000-00000000ff300000

Capabilities: \[dc] Power Management version 2

Capabilities: \[f0] PCI-X non-bridge device.

01:05.0 Ethernet controller: Silicom Ltd: Unknown device 0028 (rev 01)

Subsystem: Silicom Ltd: Unknown device 0028

Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 22

Memory at fc880000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) \[size=128K]

I/O ports at 8480 \[size=64]

Capabilities: \[dc] Power Management version 2

Capabilities: \[e4] PCI-X non-bridge device.

Capabilities: \[f0] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit+ Queue=0/0 Enable-

01:05.1 Ethernet controller: Silicom Ltd: Unknown device 0028 (rev 01)

Subsystem: Silicom Ltd: Unknown device 0028

Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 23

Memory at fc8a0000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) \[size=128K]

I/O ports at 8800 \[size=64]

Capabilities: \[dc] Power Management version 2

Capabilities: \[e4] PCI-X non-bridge device.

Capabilities: \[f0] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit+ Queue=0/0 Enable-

02:0e.0 RAID bus controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic: Unknown device 0409 (rev 0a)

Subsystem: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic: Unknown device 3008

Flags: bus master, stepping, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 21

Memory at ff3f0000 (32-bit, prefetchable) \[size=64K]

Memory at fc600000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) \[size=1M]

Expansion ROM at fc5e0000 \[disabled] \[size=128K]

Capabilities: \[c0] Power Management version 2

Capabilities: \[d0] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit+ Queue=0/1 Enable-

Capabilities: \[e0] PCI-X non-bridge device.

03:09.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5704 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 03)

Subsystem: Broadcom Corporation: Unknown device 1644

Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 18

Memory at fc9c0000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) \[size=64K]

Memory at fc9b0000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) \[size=64K]

Expansion ROM at fc9a0000 \[disabled] \[size=64K]

Capabilities: \[40] PCI-X non-bridge device.

Capabilities: \[48] Power Management version 2

Capabilities: \[50] Vital Product Data

Capabilities: \[58] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit+ Queue=0/3 Enable-

03:09.1 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5704 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 03)

Subsystem: Broadcom Corporation: Unknown device 1644

Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 19

Memory at fc9f0000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) \[size=64K]

Memory at fc9e0000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) \[size=64K]

Expansion ROM at fc9d0000 \[disabled] \[size=64K]

Capabilities: \[40] PCI-X non-bridge device.

Capabilities: \[48] Power Management version 2

Capabilities: \[50] Vital Product Data

Capabilities: \[58] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit+ Queue=0/3 Enable-

04:00.0 USB Controller: Advanced Micro Devices \[AMD] AMD-8111 USB (rev 0b) (prog-if 10 \[OHCI])

Subsystem: Advanced Micro Devices \[AMD] AMD-8111 USB

Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 17

Memory at feafc000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) \[size=4K]

04:00.1 USB Controller: Advanced Micro Devices \[AMD] AMD-8111 USB (rev 0b) (prog-if 10 \[OHCI])

Subsystem: Advanced Micro Devices \[AMD] AMD-8111 USB

Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 17

Memory at feafd000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) \[size=4K]

04:06.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage XL (rev 27) (prog-if 00 \[VGA])

Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc Rage XL

Flags: bus master, stepping, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 16

Memory at fd000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) \[size=16M]

I/O ports at b000 \[size=256]

Memory at feaff000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) \[size=4K]

Expansion ROM at feac0000 \[disabled] \[size=128K]

Capabilities: \[5c] Power Management version 2

04:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82557/8/9 \[Ethernet Pro 100] (rev 10)

Subsystem: Intel Corporation EtherExpress PRO/100 S Server Adapter

Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 16

Memory at feafb000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) \[size=4K]

I/O ports at bc00 \[size=64]

Memory at feaa0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) \[size=128K]

Capabilities: \[dc] Power Management version 2

\[root@slammer root]# lsmod

Module Size Used by Not tainted

bcm5700 113600 0 (unused)

e100 72672 1

ipt_REJECT 5152 1 (autoclean)

ipt_state 1536 22 (autoclean)

ip_conntrack 30272 1 (autoclean) \[ipt_state]

ipt_LOG 4576 1 (autoclean)

iptable_filter 2848 1 (autoclean)

ip_tables 16416 4 \[ipt_REJECT ipt_state ipt_LOG iptable_filter]

sg 36612 0 (autoclean)

keybdev 3360 0 (unused)

mousedev 5876 0 (unused)

hid 23328 0 (unused)

input 6848 0 \[keybdev mousedev hid]

usb-ohci 21792 0 (unused)

usbcore 81312 1 \[hid usb-ohci]

triflex 3780 0 (unused)

sc1200 6916 0 (unused)

pdc202xx_old 13176 0 (unused)

adma100 1920 0 (unused)

megaraid2 37576 4

\[root@slammer root]# cat /etc/vmware/esx.conf

/boot/kernelAppend = ""

/boot/kernelVersion = "2.4.21-37.0.2.EL"

/boot/memSize = "272"

/boot/rootDev = "UUID=9fa55548-2a0f-4ced-8ebd-680c3880823d"

/device/000:06.0/class = "060400"

/device/000:06.0/devID = "7460"

/device/000:06.0/name = "Advanced Micro Devices \[AMD] AMD-8111 PCI (rev 07) (prog-if 00 \[Normal decode])"

/device/000:06.0/options = ""

/device/000:06.0/owner = "serviceConsole"

/device/000:06.0/subsysDevID = "0"

/device/000:06.0/subsysVendor = "0"

/device/000:06.0/vendor = "1022"

/device/000:07.0/class = "060100"

/device/000:07.0/devID = "7468"

/device/000:07.0/name = "Advanced Micro Devices \[AMD] AMD-8111 LPC (rev 05)"

/device/000:07.0/options = ""

/device/000:07.0/owner = "serviceConsole"

/device/000:07.0/subsysDevID = "7468"

/device/000:07.0/subsysVendor = "1022"

/device/000:07.0/vendor = "1022"

/device/000:07.1/class = "010100"

/device/000:07.1/devID = "7469"

/device/000:07.1/name = "Advanced Micro Devices \[AMD] AMD-8111 IDE (rev 03) (prog-if 8a \[Master SecP PriP])"

/device/000:07.1/options = ""

/device/000:07.1/owner = "serviceConsole"

/device/000:07.1/subsysDevID = "7469"

/device/000:07.1/subsysVendor = "1022"

/device/000:07.1/vendor = "1022"

/device/000:07.2/class = "0c0500"

/device/000:07.2/devID = "746a"

/device/000:07.2/irq = "17"

/device/000:07.2/name = "Advanced Micro Devices \[AMD] AMD-8111 SMBus 2.0 (rev 02)"

/device/000:07.2/options = ""

/device/000:07.2/owner = "serviceConsole"

/device/000:07.2/subsysDevID = "746a"

/device/000:07.2/subsysVendor = "1022"

/device/000:07.2/vendor = "1022"

/device/000:07.3/class = "068000"

/device/000:07.3/devID = "746b"

/device/000:07.3/name = "Advanced Micro Devices \[AMD] AMD-8111 ACPI (rev 05)"

/device/000:07.3/options = ""

/device/000:07.3/owner = "serviceConsole"

/device/000:07.3/subsysDevID = "746b"

/device/000:07.3/subsysVendor = "1022"

/device/000:07.3/vendor = "1022"

/device/000:10.0/class = "060400"

/device/000:10.0/devID = "7450"

/device/000:10.0/name = "Advanced Micro Devices \[AMD] AMD-8131 PCI-X Bridge (rev 12) (prog-if 00 \[Normal decode])"

/device/000:10.0/options = ""

/device/000:10.0/owner = "serviceConsole"

/device/000:10.0/subsysDevID = "0"

/device/000:10.0/subsysVendor = "0"

/device/000:10.0/vendor = "1022"

/device/000:10.1/class = "080000"

/device/000:10.1/devID = "7451"

/device/000:10.1/name = "Advanced Micro Devices \[AMD] AMD-8131 PCI-X APIC (rev 01) (prog-if 10 \[IO-APIC])"

/device/000:10.1/options = ""

/device/000:10.1/owner = "serviceConsole"

/device/000:10.1/subsysDevID = "36c0"

/device/000:10.1/subsysVendor = "1022"

/device/000:10.1/vendor = "1022"

/device/000:11.0/class = "060400"

/device/000:11.0/devID = "7450"

/device/000:11.0/name = "Advanced Micro Devices \[AMD] AMD-8131 PCI-X Bridge (rev 12) (prog-if 00 \[Normal decode])"

/device/000:11.0/options = ""

/device/000:11.0/owner = "serviceConsole"

/device/000:11.0/subsysDevID = "0"

/device/000:11.0/subsysVendor = "0"

/device/000:11.0/vendor = "1022"

/device/000:11.1/class = "080000"

/device/000:11.1/devID = "7451"

/device/000:11.1/name = "Advanced Micro Devices \[AMD] AMD-8131 PCI-X APIC (rev 01) (prog-if 10 \[IO-APIC])"

/device/000:11.1/options = ""

/device/000:11.1/owner = "serviceConsole"

/device/000:11.1/subsysDevID = "36c0"

/device/000:11.1/subsysVendor = "1022"

/device/000:11.1/vendor = "1022"

/device/000:24.0/class = "060000"

/device/000:24.0/devID = "1100"

/device/000:24.0/name = "Advanced Micro Devices \[AMD] K8 \[Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration"

/device/000:24.0/options = ""

/device/000:24.0/owner = "serviceConsole"

/device/000:24.0/subsysDevID = "0"

/device/000:24.0/subsysVendor = "0"

/device/000:24.0/vendor = "1022"

/device/000:24.1/class = "060000"

/device/000:24.1/devID = "1101"

/device/000:24.1/name = "Advanced Micro Devices \[AMD] K8 \[Athlon64/Opteron] Address MapK8 NorthBridge"

/device/000:24.1/options = ""

/device/000:24.1/owner = "serviceConsole"

/device/000:24.1/subsysDevID = "0"

/device/000:24.1/subsysVendor = "0"

/device/000:24.1/vendor = "1022"

/device/000:24.2/class = "060000"

/device/000:24.2/devID = "1102"

/device/000:24.2/name = "Advanced Micro Devices \[AMD] K8 \[Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller"

/device/000:24.2/options = ""

/device/000:24.2/owner = "serviceConsole"

/device/000:24.2/subsysDevID = "0"

/device/000:24.2/subsysVendor = "0"

/device/000:24.2/vendor = "1022"

/device/000:24.3/class = "060000"

/device/000:24.3/devID = "1103"

/device/000:24.3/name = "Advanced Micro Devices \[AMD] K8 \[Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control"

/device/000:24.3/options = ""

/device/000:24.3/owner = "serviceConsole"

/device/000:24.3/subsysDevID = "0"

/device/000:24.3/subsysVendor = "0"

/device/000:24.3/vendor = "1022"

/device/000:25.0/class = "060000"

/device/000:25.0/devID = "1100"

/device/000:25.0/name = "Advanced Micro Devices \[AMD] K8 \[Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration"

/device/000:25.0/options = ""

/device/000:25.0/owner = "serviceConsole"

/device/000:25.0/subsysDevID = "0"

/device/000:25.0/subsysVendor = "0"

/device/000:25.0/vendor = "1022"

/device/000:25.1/class = "060000"

/device/000:25.1/devID = "1101"

/device/000:25.1/name = "Advanced Micro Devices \[AMD] K8 \[Athlon64/Opteron] Address MapK8 NorthBridge"

/device/000:25.1/options = ""

/device/000:25.1/owner = "serviceConsole"

/device/000:25.1/subsysDevID = "0"

/device/000:25.1/subsysVendor = "0"

/device/000:25.1/vendor = "1022"

/device/000:25.2/class = "060000"

/device/000:25.2/devID = "1102"

/device/000:25.2/name = "Advanced Micro Devices \[AMD] K8 \[Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller"

/device/000:25.2/options = ""

/device/000:25.2/owner = "serviceConsole"

/device/000:25.2/subsysDevID = "0"

/device/000:25.2/subsysVendor = "0"

/device/000:25.2/vendor = "1022"

/device/000:25.3/class = "060000"

/device/000:25.3/devID = "1103"

/device/000:25.3/name = "Advanced Micro Devices \[AMD] K8 \[Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control"

/device/000:25.3/options = ""

/device/000:25.3/owner = "serviceConsole"

/device/000:25.3/subsysDevID = "0"

/device/000:25.3/subsysVendor = "0"

/device/000:25.3/vendor = "1022"

/device/001:03.0/class = "020000"

/device/001:03.0/devID = "0028"

/device/001:03.0/irq = "20"

/device/001:03.0/name = "Silicom Ltd: Unknown device 0028 (rev 01)"

/device/001:03.0/options = ""

/device/001:03.0/owner = "serviceConsole"

/device/001:03.0/subsysDevID = "0028"

/device/001:03.0/subsysVendor = "1374"

/device/001:03.0/vendor = "1374"

/device/001:03.1/class = "020000"

/device/001:03.1/devID = "0028"

/device/001:03.1/irq = "21"

/device/001:03.1/name = "Silicom Ltd: Unknown device 0028 (rev 01)"

/device/001:03.1/options = ""

/device/001:03.1/owner = "serviceConsole"

/device/001:03.1/subsysDevID = "0028"

/device/001:03.1/subsysVendor = "1374"

/device/001:03.1/vendor = "1374"

/device/001:04.0/class = "060400"

/device/001:04.0/devID = "0335"

/device/001:04.0/name = "Intel Corporation: Unknown device 0335 (rev 0a) (prog-if 00 \[Normal decode])"

/device/001:04.0/options = ""

/device/001:04.0/owner = "serviceConsole"

/device/001:04.0/subsysDevID = "0"

/device/001:04.0/subsysVendor = "0"

/device/001:04.0/vendor = "8086"

/device/001:05.0/class = "020000"

/device/001:05.0/devID = "0028"

/device/001:05.0/irq = "22"

/device/001:05.0/name = "Silicom Ltd: Unknown device 0028 (rev 01)"

/device/001:05.0/options = ""

/device/001:05.0/owner = "serviceConsole"

/device/001:05.0/subsysDevID = "0028"

/device/001:05.0/subsysVendor = "1374"

/device/001:05.0/vendor = "1374"

/device/001:05.1/class = "020000"

/device/001:05.1/devID = "0028"

/device/001:05.1/irq = "23"

/device/001:05.1/name = "Silicom Ltd: Unknown device 0028 (rev 01)"

/device/001:05.1/options = ""

/device/001:05.1/owner = "serviceConsole"

/device/001:05.1/subsysDevID = "0028"

/device/001:05.1/subsysVendor = "1374"

/device/001:05.1/vendor = "1374"

/device/002:14.0/class = "010400"

/device/002:14.0/devID = "0409"

/device/002:14.0/irq = "21"

/device/002:14.0/name = "LSI Logic / Symbios Logic: Unknown device 0409 (rev 0a)"

/device/002:14.0/options = ""

/device/002:14.0/owner = "serviceConsole"

/device/002:14.0/subsysDevID = "3008"

/device/002:14.0/subsysVendor = "1000"

/device/002:14.0/vendor = "1000"

/device/003:09.0/class = "020000"

/device/003:09.0/devID = "1648"

/device/003:09.0/irq = "18"

/device/003:09.0/name = "Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5704 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 03)"

/device/003:09.0/options = ""

/device/003:09.0/owner = "vmkernel"

/device/003:09.0/subsysDevID = "1644"

/device/003:09.0/subsysVendor = "14e4"

/device/003:09.0/vendor = "14e4"

/device/003:09.0/vmkname = "vmnic1"

/device/003:09.1/class = "020000"

/device/003:09.1/devID = "1648"

/device/003:09.1/irq = "19"

/device/003:09.1/name = "Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5704 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 03)"

/device/003:09.1/options = ""

/device/003:09.1/owner = "vmkernel"

/device/003:09.1/subsysDevID = "1644"

/device/003:09.1/subsysVendor = "14e4"

/device/003:09.1/vendor = "14e4"

/device/003:09.1/vmkname = "vmnic2"

/device/004:00.0/class = "0c0300"

/device/004:00.0/devID = "7464"

/device/004:00.0/irq = "17"

/device/004:00.0/name = "Advanced Micro Devices \[AMD] AMD-8111 USB (rev 0b) (prog-if 10 \[OHCI])"

/device/004:00.0/options = ""

/device/004:00.0/owner = "serviceConsole"

/device/004:00.0/subsysDevID = "7464"

/device/004:00.0/subsysVendor = "1022"

/device/004:00.0/vendor = "1022"

/device/004:00.1/class = "0c0300"

/device/004:00.1/devID = "7464"

/device/004:00.1/irq = "17"

/device/004:00.1/name = "Advanced Micro Devices \[AMD] AMD-8111 USB (rev 0b) (prog-if 10 \[OHCI])"

/device/004:00.1/options = ""

/device/004:00.1/owner = "serviceConsole"

/device/004:00.1/subsysDevID = "7464"

/device/004:00.1/subsysVendor = "1022"

/device/004:00.1/vendor = "1022"

/device/004:06.0/class = "030000"

/device/004:06.0/devID = "4752"

/device/004:06.0/irq = "16"

/device/004:06.0/name = "ATI Technologies Inc Rage XL (rev 27) (prog-if 00 \[VGA])"

/device/004:06.0/options = ""

/device/004:06.0/owner = "serviceConsole"

/device/004:06.0/subsysDevID = "8008"

/device/004:06.0/subsysVendor = "1002"

/device/004:06.0/vendor = "1002"

/device/004:08.0/class = "020000"

/device/004:08.0/devID = "1229"

/device/004:08.0/irq = "16"

/device/004:08.0/name = "Intel Corporation 82557/8/9 \[Ethernet Pro 100] (rev 10)"

/device/004:08.0/options = ""

/device/004:08.0/owner = "vmkernel"

/device/004:08.0/subsysDevID = "1040"

/device/004:08.0/subsysVendor = "8086"

/device/004:08.0/vendor = "8086"

/device/004:08.0/vmkname = "vmnic0"

/net/vswifs/vswif0 = "/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-vswif0"

/net/vswitch/child\[0000]/beacon/enable = "false"

/net/vswitch/child\[0000]/beacon/threshold = "1"

/net/vswitch/child\[0000]/beacon/timeout = "1"

/net/vswitch/child\[0000]/name = "vSwitch0"

/net/vswitch/child\[0000]/numPorts = "32"

/net/vswitch/child\[0000]/portgroup/child\[0000]/prettyName = "Service Console"

/net/vswitch/child\[0000]/portgroup/child\[0000]/uid = "portgroup0"

/net/vswitch/child\[0000]/portgroup/child\[0000]/vlanId = "0"

/net/vswitch/child\[0000]/portgroup/child\[0001]/prettyName = "VM Network"

/net/vswitch/child\[0000]/portgroup/child\[0001]/uid = "portgroup1"

/net/vswitch/child\[0000]/portgroup/child\[0001]/vlanId = "0"

/net/vswitch/child\[0000]/teamPolicy/uplinks\[0000]/pnic = "vmnic0"

/net/vswitch/child\[0000]/uplinks/child\[0000]/pnic = "vmnic0"

/net/vswitch/pgSequence = "2"

/vmkernel/netNumInstalledPnics = "3"

/vmkmodule\[0000]/enabled = "true"

/vmkmodule\[0000]/module = "vmkapimod"

/vmkmodule\[0000]/type = "vmkapimod"

/vmkmodule\[0001]/enabled = "true"

/vmkmodule\[0001]/module = "vmklinux"

/vmkmodule\[0001]/type = "linux"

/vmkmodule\[0002]/enabled = "true"

/vmkmodule\[0002]/module = "tg3.o"

/vmkmodule\[0002]/type = "nic"

/vmkmodule\[0003]/enabled = "true"

/vmkmodule\[0003]/module = "e100.o"

/vmkmodule\[0003]/type = "nic"

/cos/oneTimeRun = "1"

[dtdionne]

Well...all I have to say is that I am one happy little fella!

As usual Paul, what can I say? Thanks a million again....because of your advice I know have a fully functional ESX server.

What I did was edit the esx.cfg, pci.xml, and vmware-devices.map files located in the /etc/vmware directory and change the device number from 0407 to 0409 for all LSI devices and then run the following:

esxcfg-boot -p

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