Recent content by pdcrom

I fixed the ESXi 5.1 boot issues I was experiencing. I remembered that I disabled the LAN PXE boot for all the NICs in the BIOS before. This is something the ESXi 5.1 bootloader cannot cope with, but the ESXi 5.5 loader can. By resetting the BIOS to the standard optimized settings the problem...

Some more details about the firewire pass-through first: I have put some pictures and log-files from /var/log/vmware here I included a picture of the board, you see 3 PCIe slots (A/B/C). The dual port NIC is installed in slot C The firewire card is installed in slot A (the PCI x16 slot) One...

Hi, It looks like the BIOS is up-to-date, it says version 1.1a and looking at the supermicro website this is the latest version from 20-8-2013. Yes, I want to passthrough the firewire card, because I have two DVB tuners that have a firewire connection. In ESXi 5.1 when selecting the PCI...

Hi, I have build a home server with the following hardware: - Supermicro X10SLL-F - Intel Xeon E3-1230v3 - 32 GB RAM - Logilink firewire PCIe card - Intel PRO/1000 PT dual port PCIe NIC - 4GB USB stick to boot ESXI The problem is that ESXi 5.1 will not boot when the machine is...