ESXi intall hangs - Booting: MBI=0x00010240, entry=0x0040024a

[mswspm]

I'm attempting to install ESXi on an ASUS CG8350. This is a Sandy Bridge with a core i7-2600. The motherboard is a P8H67-M Pro. When the install gets to loading shav.tgz, it hangs and displays the following error message.

Booting: MBI=0x00010240, entry=0x0040024a

I've done quite a bit of searching and couldn't find the 0x00010240 error code. I have updated the BIOS and enabled Intel Virtualization Technology. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

[idle-jam]

Welcome to the community.

With whitebox, it would only be best effort.

One of the way is to install on a usable machine onto the USB drive. Then boot up the current machine from that USB. http://www.vladan.fr/how-to-install-esxi-40-on-usb-memory-key/

[mswspm]

Yeah, tried that too. ESXi does not boot. The white bar goes across the Loading VMware Hypervisor screen then shows a flashing cursor next to the bar and doesn't go any further.

[idle-jam]

sounds bad, maybe you could refer to the below 2 URLs in which those hardware are tested to work in a whitebox environment.

http://vm-help.com

http://ultimatewhitebox.com/

btw, you could press Alt+F12 during the boot time to look at the actual error message.

[mswspm]

I'll check the URLs. I believe they are the same as I found on previous searches.   I tried alt+F12 while HV was loading, but nothing happened.  Is there a specific time to press it? I tried several times.

[ScottChapman]

Did you ever figure this out? I am running ESXi 4.0U2 and have been unable to upgrade to 4.1 or 4.1U1.

I am getting exactly the same behavior you are.

[mswspm]

No. I just said forget it and installed Microsoft Hyper-V on Windows 2008R2.  I had an immediate need my server to work. It works just fine. I'd like to eventually install ESXi, but I'll wait until someone figures it out or there's a new version that addresses it.

[nkrishnan]

Can you try by disable some of the new feature support like sata 2, new processor features like TXT and others.

Enable only minimul settings and features and try to install and boot it. If it worked you will be able to narrow down the problem

Thanks

Nithin

[mswspm]

I finally got around to working on this again. All I had to do was update the BIOS. I had done this back in February, but the vesion at that time did not work. With the current version of both the BIOS firmware and ESXi, the installation went through normally.