VMWARE ESX3i - RHEL 4 Installation "Operating System not found"

[antoniofs]

Hi!

I have a problem when start virtual machine using VI Client with RHEL4-U5-x86_64-souce-disc1.iso. Message "Operating System not found". I had installed before 4 operating system, RHEL5 between them and I hadn't problems with them.

I check md5 sum with RHEL4 iso's and all of them check's right.

I'd configured bios to boot from CD first.

I'd tried to mount RHEL5 in this VM and boot from iso perfectly. I dont know how RHEL4 iso fails if md5sum is correct...

No more ideas... Could anyone help me????

Thx!

[AntonVZhbankov]

Check if CDRom is "Connected" and "Connect on power".

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[harryc]

If I had aleady installed RHEL5 (and the CD image is mounted at boot) I'd burn off t eh ISO and see if I could boot a physical box with the physical CD/DVD.

[antoniofs]

Hi!

Connect at power on is activated. The server machine is in other location so I couldn't use the physical CD/DVD.

I'd tried to copy the iso of CD1 to datastore on server and connect the virtual CD/DVD with this iso... the result was the same... "Operating system not found"

I downloaded the iso's from Red Hat Network and md5sum works, so I dont think the problem are iso's

Pointing CD/DVD to RHEL5 image works perfectly doing the same steps to create the VM.

Anyone install RHEL4 on ESX3i (or other version) successfully?

Thx a lot!

[AntonVZhbankov]

I've done it an hour ago

Select "Use client device" for CD in VM settings and set boot delay to 10-15 seconds.

Power VM, and press "Esc" to enter boot menu. Then connect CD from VI client to ISO file on your desktop, and select CD as boot source. VM should boot from CD.

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[antoniofs]

I've done it too...

Bios options to boot with CD/DVD device was set before try to boot the VM.

Did you do with RHEL 4 or another version? I've tried with RHEL5 and no problems with that version.Boot perfectly with RHEL5 DVD iso.

Thx for the reply!

[AntonVZhbankov]

If you can boot from other CD the same way, but not from this particular - the problem is in this particular CD / ISO.

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[antoniofs]

I

thought of that possibility, but RHEL4 isos's has been downloaded from

the website support of RedHat and md5 has been tested successfully.

Have you installed RHEL4 in particular?

[AntonVZhbankov]

It looks very strange then. Yes, I installed RHEL4 today from the 5CD set (ISOs).

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[antoniofs]

Hi!

Problem was resolved! The problem is I'm a fuc*ng st*id... I commited a mistake downloading source image iso's instead binaries iso's...

Finally I've installed RHEL4.5 AS and all works perfectly.

Too bad yum couldn't be use against RHEL4 official respository... any alternative?

Thx and sorry!