So I burned the ESXi 7.0b iso to a DVD, updated the boot order in BIOS and was able to boot the ESXi installer. I also tried using the SHIFT-O "runweasel formatwithmbr" boot option to the ESXi installer, but I could not get this to resolve my issue.Īs I couldn't get the ESXi 7.0 or 6.7 installer to boot from USB when in Legacy Boot mode, my next thought was to try booting from a DVD rather than USB. I tried adding a MBR partition to the USB drive but still could not get it to boot when in Legacy boot mode. When I first tried disabling UEFI boot and using "Legacy" booting I could not get it to boot from the USB thumb drive, it showed a message on the display saying that it was trying to boot from USB, but it would not boot. I originally did not think that this was my issue, as I believe that I was booting in UEFI mode prior to problems seen after the power outage. I came across some suggestions that UEFI booting may may cause issue with the ESXi startup process. I'm still not sure why things changed after the power outage, but I found a work around that works for me, so I'm happy with that. Thanks to you all for the ideas and feedback. I'm finally back up and running - A great relief, after a very tough couple of days. Maybe my problem is unlikely to be caused by potential corruption of the SSD at /dev/sda? Maybe there is a way to use this Debian based rescue system to attempt to check and repair the VMFS filesystem (e.g. I tried loading and using vmfs-tools on the Debian based rescue system, however command "sudo debugvmfs /dev/sda1 df -h" results in message saying "VMFS: unsupported version 6, unable to open device" Also reports "Syslinux GPTMBR (3.74-4.03) is installed in the MBR of /dev/sda.
This recognizes the filesystem on the SSD (/dev/sda1) to be "VMFS_volume_member", however says that it is an "unknown filesystem" I have been able to successfully load Rescatux 0.73 (a (Debian Linux based rescue disk) from a live DVD This showed no signs of detected hardware issues I have been able to successfully load and run Ubuntu from a live DVD I ran the "DPS Self Test" on the SSD, via the BIOS Setup Utility - "All Tests Passed" Is there a way to access log files during the initializing phase? Note: ALT+F12 is not working for me during this phase. ACPI apparently means Advanced Configuration and Power Interface I have not been able to find what is happening during this stage (hoping that this knowledge might provide a clue as to the cause) I also tried with new USB drived loaded with ESXi 7.0bc, and then ESXi 7.0.2 (build 17867351), and both cases found that it gets stuck at this same step
"Initializing InitVMKernel." starts and progresses (grey and yellow screen) ESXi boots from a USB drive connected to the server SSD: 128 GB LITE-ON LCH-128V2S-11 (containing ESXi Datastore for hosted VMs etc., not ESXi bootloader)īIOS Setup Utility: Aptio Setup Utility v by American Megatrends Unfortunately I've not been able to find the cause of this issue. Since power was restored, ESXi has failed to complete the boot process, always getting stuck at "Initializing InitVMKernel: VMKAcpi_LateInit. We recently had a sudden power outage (blackout).
This system has been working well over the last 6 months. I have a home computer running the ESXi 7.0b (Build 16324942) hypervisor, supporting multiple VMs.
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