5.5 ESXi. U1/2 crashes randomly at setup time

I'm trying to install ESXi 5.5 for two weeks, have been plagued with ESXi 5.5 U1/U2 hung at random stages without apparent reason. I am driven crazy with the absence of any suspicion of newspaper or error whatsoever.

Random steps involved are:

-user load successfully

-loading lgb

-loading lacp

-loading ipmi_si_drv

I could not discern any pattern between these occurrences (I have reset the system at least 100 times).

I have a screenshot of console complete one of these hanging here-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFzFjyw9kBU

This crash is captured with ignoreHeadless = TRUE flag spent... without this indicator, this step is successfully resolved, but fails at the step of «loading lgb...» "... result is the same - just a screen empty and either it resets the physical machine or the computer must be restarted manually.

It was captured with ESXi 5.5 U1 but the same with U2. I'm literally lost and can't even begin to think about what to do next... any help is greatly appreciated

Material is given in the video, but here it is again:

-SuperMicro X10SLM + f

-16 GB Crucial RAM ECC

-start-up out of Sandisk Extreme 32 GB USB stick (Rufus used to put the ISO on key, use the MBR or no UEFI)

ignoreHeadless does not help.

IgnoreHeadless = TRUE flag used to help until I have decided the speed of the fan and did the following:

-used freeIpmi 1.3.4 to fund the fan settings and commit new ones (that took place without problems)

-given that the fans do not change their speed at the start I tried to Load Optimized Defaults (which did not help, but I soon discovered that I had to toggle power on motherboard fully as IPMI loaded the new settings)

So I currently think that a 'broken' stuff ESXi install - even if I would find it is amazing. Trying to load the IPMI factory defaults did nothing.

Any ideas or suggestions? I am beyond desperate at this point.

So after much fussing around and pull the hair, I have to admit I had accidentally stumbled upon the solution.

The question I had was not the strange material or a technical failure (RAM sticks are healthy and their removal or disabling LAN did nothing to help) - is the fact that I tried to install ESXi host without and attached to all SATA drives. As soon as I attached the SATA drive, just to have on hand, everything worked perfectly.

It was a totally accidental discovery - in a moment of desperation, I tried to start CentOS 7 ISO installation in an effort to install and boot from a USB stick (if all goes well to go even further and make a diagnosis). It failed with exactly the same symptoms as the ESXi except - he threw a message similar to 'no controller attached. That immediately caught my attention because it is the last stable and free distribution of server-level, which is not expected to have problems. Therefore, it must be the kernel itself (which is probably the only thing ESXi distro and CentOS7 have in common) behaves erratically when no SATA drive is connected. Helped by the message (which lacked efforts ESXi), I connected the HARD drive and - Oh surprise - everything that took place without a hitch.

My conclusion is this: for reasons that escape me, it seems (stock)? Linux kernel is having major problems installing on a system without attached SATA drive. Did just that manifests itself in this way with only this particular motherboard or other hardware component? I have no idea and would not to test any more - I'm just glad it works now.

On a personal note, I have worked with computers for the past 25 years, and this must be one of the best moments of bizzare/wtf 5 I've ever had.

HTH someone.

Tags: VMware

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