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ESXi 5.5 installer freezing during install (solution)

Zarathustra[H]

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Hey all,

I was setting up my new server (using a Supermicro X8DTE motherboard) last night and ran into an issue where the installer would boot, but never complete loading, freezing at the moving modules and loading kernel step.

Took me a while to troubleshoot, so I figured I'd post my solution here for posterity.

My motherboard has a "headless" mode under ACPI settings, which appears to be enabled by default. For whatever reason ESXi does not appear to like this setting enabled. Disabling it solved the problem, and everything proceeded with the (extremely slow) normal ESXi install.

(never understood why it takes so long for ESXi to install, but that appears to be a constant on all my machines)

In reading I also came across another solution to this if the disabling headless option doesn't work. Apparently ESXi likes having more than 1MB of video RAM, so if there is a BIOS option to change this for the on board GPU, switch it to 8MB, and it might solve the issue.
 
Let me just add there is ignoreHeadless=TRUE esxi advanced configuration switch - it can be passed as a parameter during boot-up and then saved as a boot option.

More here.
 
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