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during boot i get nothing but hang screen
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during boot i get nothing but hang screen

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Are the VM OS supported for ESXi 6.5 ?<br />
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Datastore has not broken, or corrupted ?<br />
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No snapshots ?
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Are the VM OS supported for ESXi 6.5 ?

Datastore has not broken, or corrupted ?

No snapshots ?

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no issue on the vmware side of it. i checked already.
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no issue on the vmware side of it. i checked already.

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Things don't just break for no reason. More information required.
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Things don't just break for no reason. More information required.

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Can you see the boot menu? &nbsp;If so, &nbsp;you can edit it and try to boot from console,, &nbsp; &nbsp;when &nbsp;Booting hihglight you regular Kernel, &nbsp;usually there are some seconds before the OS boots itself, &nbsp; once is highlited, you can press e to edit this entry.. &nbsp;try to see if you can perform &nbsp;this, If so, further directions can be provided.
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Can you see the boot menu?  If so,  you can edit it and try to boot from console,,    when  Booting hihglight you regular Kernel,  usually there are some seconds before the OS boots itself,   once is highlited, you can press e to edit this entry..  try to see if you can perform  this, If so, further directions can be provided.

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the issue was related to rc scripts and i found the solution my self.
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the issue was related to rc scripts and i found the solution my self.

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all of the sudden all my 3 VMs failed to boot. <br />
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RHEL 6.9 &nbsp;running on ESXi 6.5. &nbsp;I have other VMs working fine. <br />
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I tried to boot from previous kernel 6.8 version. still same issue. I can't go to single user mode either. <br />
no vmware VM configuration changed so far.
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all of the sudden all my 3 VMs failed to boot. 

RHEL 6.9  running on ESXi 6.5.  I have other VMs working fine. 

I tried to boot from previous kernel 6.8 version. still same issue. I can't go to single user mode either. 
no vmware VM configuration changed so far.

unable to boot RHEL 6.9 VM

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