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ccie4481
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Contributor
‎03-07-2008 10:11 AM

ESX 3.5 Fresh install, cant mount root

Hello,

I have a poweredge 6650, quad processor, 16gig RAM...im installing ESX 3.5 and the isntaller goes fine, when i reboot it comes up and says that it cant mount the root drive an drops me into a shell...Any ideas why this is happening or how i can fix this?

TIA

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Jae_Ellers
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‎03-07-2008 12:56 PM

Do you have fiber attached storage?

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ccie4481
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‎03-07-2008 01:00 PM

No its using local SCSI drives...i did a test and ESX 3.02 will load an run fine, only having the issue with ESX 3.5

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Dave_Mishchenko
Immortal
Immortal
‎03-09-2008 12:55 AM

See this thread regarding firmware revisions - http://communities.vmware.com/thread/118733?tstart=0&start=0.