Update ESXi3.5U3 to ESXi4 by vSphere update Utility error: host not supported - unhandled setting in startup disk page

When I try to upgrade my ESXi3.5 Server (which is Xeon E5310 on ASUS DSBV/SAS box with 5 SATA drive on the SAS controller unRAID) to ESXi4

I got error: unsupported Host - not support layout of startup disk

What can I do now? Is this bug or just, do not boot from the local disk support?

Since the fdisk-l to output provided, its clear that the 2nd partition is missing. The 2nd parition in ESXi Installable is the partition scratch (FAT16 file system), which is by default to 4 GB. During the upgrade the parition is resized to scrape (about 150 MB of space is used 4 GB) to extend the bootbanks of 49 MB to 256 MB.

I don't know the exact reason why the partition scratch missing here since it is generally created during the default installation. One possibility could be that there was a parition scratch already available on a secondary drive during installation and setup it has not created on the primary drive.

A standard partition for ESXi 3.5 with partition table scratch would look something like the following...

Disk/dev/disk / vmhba1:0:0:0: 8589 MB, 8589934592 bytes

Heads of 64, 32 sectors/track, 8192 bottles

Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 = 1048576 bytes

Device boot start end blocks Id system

/ dev/discs / 5 750 763904 5 Extended vmhba1:0:0:1

/ dev/discs / 751 4845 4193280 6 FAT16 vmhba1:0:0:2 < -.

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