No, I can't get the machine to boot into ESXi at all.  After the failed upgrade it hangs at Hypervisor Recovery.  I tried the install again and this time, upgrade is not an option - it only let me do an install (so maybe the disk had been corrupted).  I tried a fresh install and got a similar (but different) error.  See 2nd attached screenshot below.

I'll also not that I was using IPMI Virtual Media.  Thinking that it may be an issue, I burned the media to a USB stick and tried a local boot as well but both ways yield same problem and result. 

Thanks!