Illegal Opcode (Red Screen Of Death) after Firmware Upgrade

[chorgeas]

My server is ProLiant DL385 G5p and running ESXi 5.0 Boot From SAN aka BFS using Broadcom dependent card.

After installation of ESXi 5.0, I have upgraded it's firmware using "HP Smart update firmware DVD version 10.0"

Now while booting I am getting error as Illegal Opcode. Please find the attached for more details.

After referring following link I come to know there must be GRUB loader error.

http://communities.vmware.com/message/1110199

And one of the VMware kb article is saying "Upgrade the BIOS before conducting the VMware ESX upgrade"

Ref: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=101555...

Do you have any alternative to resolve this issue?

[saurabhbhattach]

Is it an iSCSI SAN Boot Card or FC?

[chorgeas]

Yes it is ISCSI

[saurabhbhattach]

I've faced a same problem with iSCSI BFS, I was using two initiators one as primary and one as secondary. I had an option to use four of them. Just for testing purposes, I disabled three of those out of four and esxi got installed with no problem. Try disabling all of them except one and check whether esxi is getting installed.