MardukLitzer
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Post Install MINGETTY Error
Hello all, we were evaluating ESX 3.02 and had the system all set up but a week later went to 3.5. Immediately following install (using default options) we get an error that says INIT: Id "1" cannot execute /sbin/mingetty; respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes. This will just loop continuously and won't allow the system to finish coming up. I am able to boot into troubleshooting mode so am not sure what the issue could be. I also tried a clean install of the OS and still no luck. All the hardware is on the HCL so I think that can be ruled out. I performed a memory test (was suggested that may be an issue) but after running memtest86 it found no errors. Than I tried removing 1 of the 2 dimms at a time and still no luck. Any ideas would be appreciated, thanks!
Bastiaan
Watch this topic on the vmware communities (http://communities.vmware.com/message/851252). It can be the same problem with eventually maybe a solution.
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bleeuwen, thanks for your responses.. After monitoring the sequence a little further and looking at some of the logs, I saw something related to USB-OHCI or something like that and decided to go into the BIOS and disabled USB support... It worked fine and the system boots up fine now, thanks so much!