ESXI installation problem

[mohasamo]

hello,

i have a hp proliant DL385R05 server and i install on it ESXI 6.5,my problem is that in the end of installation i have the message "ESXI 6.5.0 has been successfully installed" and he ask me to reboot,when i reboot the server the following message appears "non-systeme disk or disk error replace and strike any key when ready".

NB: a previous ESXI was installed on it, so i haven't change any thing in the bios, i used RAID5,RAID0 and RAID 01 ,also tried to install ESXI 5.5,5.0 and 4.1 but same problem.

thanks for your help.

[MBreidenbach0 · Accepted solution]

I'd check boot order in BIOS and bootable logical drive in HPSA setup. Does this system have a full HPSA setup utillity in ROM ? If not then for older systems there's a bootable CD with HP array configuration utility (ACU) with more options.

I believe ESXi 6.5 is unsupported on that system but it should at least try to boot (but there may be other problems; for example the HPE 6.5 image PSODs on DL380G7 hosts)

[bingo17]

It looks like the server is setup to boot from the cd rom and/or NIC and not the primary volume.

Check that the array volume is selected in the bios.

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[mohasamo]

I checked the boot order i found "boot from shared storage " and change it to local storage and it works

Thanks a lot.