Problems during installation of ESXi 3.5 U4 - drive error 01

[DerKaspar]

Hello,

I am trying to install ESXi 3.5 U4 on a standard Dell PowerEdge6650. But everytime a boot from the CD I get the following error message:

"isolinux: Disk error 01, AX=4200, drive 00"

I have downloaded the iso file several times, checked the MD5 checksum and burned CD's of various manufacturer and speed. But it is allways the same ...

I have tried to install Ubuntu server 9.04 on this machine without any problems. After 30 minutes the server runs fine. Same to a windows 2003 test install, too. The I have downloaded ESXi 4.0 - but the problem was the same.

There are two logical drives in the server: Drive 00 is a RAID1 drive with two hardisks, drive 01 is a RAID5 drive with three harddisks. The Controller is a PERC 3/DC with latest BIOS.

Who has got an idea how to get the ESXi run on this server hardware.

Many thanks in advance,

best regards

Der Kaspar

[weinstein5]

Welcome to the forums - have you confirmed that the controller is on the HCL? - http://www.vmware.com/resources/guides.html

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[DerKaspar]

Hello,

... thank you. :smileygrin:

I have had a look onto the pages for the whole serve rbecause it is a standard and not modified Dell server PowerEdge 6550 and it should run. But about the controller I can not find a hint.

Regards

DerKaspar

[DSTAVERT]

This error occurs very early before there is any ESXi involved. It looks like the drive is not being recognized. Did you create an array in the controller menu?

[DerKaspar]

Hello DSTAVERT!

Yes, this is my impression, too. I have created the RAID in the Program of the Controller and checked it several times. I have seen that a Linux is used to start from CD so I have ask the LINUX community. But because I have no information what kind of Linux is used I do not get any suitable hints. It is very frustrating. I now have spend hours in finding a solution ... :smileyblush:

So I ask the VMWare community ...

Thank you in advance,

best regards

DerKaspar

[BKarciauskas]

I received a very similar error when installing ESXi Installable on a HP DL380G6 today. I got "isolinux: Disk error 74, AX=4200, drive 9F"

I installed ESXi installable on three other identical host servers with the same CD with no issue. I burnt another disk but it made no difference. I then decided it was hardware fault and ran the diagnostic utility however it found no fault with the server.

In the end I installed via iLo and the virtual media function using the ISO I burnt to the CD and it worked like a charm.

No idea what it could be to be honest but hopefully this might help someone if they run into the same issue.

Cheers,

Ben Karciauskas

Blog - http://karciauskas.wordpress.com