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ESXi 4.1 not booting to USB memory stick after reboot
I have a Dell 2950 running ESXi 4.1 and booting from a 4 GB memory stick. It runs perfectly fine, however, when rebooting the ESXi host I get the attached error. I tried a reinstall and a normal install and still no luck. I get the same error everytime.
vmhost4-ESXi-boot-error.JPG
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I checked the BIOS settings and all seems good. I've already deployed 4 x Dell 2950's with all the same config/part numbers/firmware versions.. I'm beginning to think hanccocka is correct that it's simply a bad USB memory stick. I'll swap out this afternoon and we'll see what happens.
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I did a clean install on a new USB memory stick. I'll be able to test it next weekend. I'll let it run for a week and will then power down the VM's, set the ESXi host to maintenance mode, and then will shut it down and power it back on.
did the new usb install, boot up okay?
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I won't be able to reboot it and test until this upcoming weekend. I have scheduled maitenance at that time. I'll update the ticket then.
Working Christmas Day then!
Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas!
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heheheheh... I ALWAYS work. :)
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I never got a chance to perform maintenance. It will be this weekend. I'll update the ticket then. I'm fairly sure it will boot though... My previous install of ESXi had other issues too... I could deploy VMWare tools to any of my guest OS'... Now I can... I'll update this weekend.
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It's now working. The replacement USB stick fixed it. I did maintenance and it came back up just fine.
http://www.ivobeerens.nl/2010/10/25/install-vmware-esxi-4-1-from-bootable-usb-stick/
Also you may want to re-check the BIOS settings making sure VM is on and no other settings got changed.