Having Issues installing ESXi5

[nitrobass24]

Trying to install ESXi to a USB drive.

I get through the installer, it say it completed successfully and that i should remove installation media and reboot.

I do.

It starts to boot...../s.v00 file not found

What does that mean and how do i fix it?

 

[Vader]

Is this an ISO that you downloaded from VMware or a custom ISO from HP or the like?

I found this in a search:

http://forums.mydigitallife.info/threads/12982-ESX-ESXi-Bios-Tools/page20

 

[nitrobass24]

No I downloaded it from VMware (twice) and both times the MD5s & SHA1's matched

 

[acesea]

Have you tried another usb drive or a different motherboard? I've noticed certain usb drives misbehaving w/ certain motherboards. Also, I'd nuke the drive with a complete format and delete the partition just in case. I don't know if you burned the iso to cd but unetbootin easily creates a bootable esxi5 usb drive. Good luck.