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Boot Failure after installing VMware ESXi 4.1 onto SD Card

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Hi, I have a brand new R810 and I am trying to get VMware vSphere ESXi 4.1 onto the built in SD cards.  The installer finishes completely and I reboot the system and after the lengthy reboot I get a "No PXE-capable device available.  Strike F1 to retry boot, F2 for system setup."

The SD cards are working just fine and the boot sequence has the Hard drive C: (Internal SD Card: Internal Dual SD) selected as the first boot device.  This system has no local hard drives, it is just to boot off of the SD cards.  This is not my first R810 system, but my first to exhibit this problem.  All my other R810's boot off of the Dual SD cards with no issues.

I disabled the PXE from the embedded NIC's.  The system also has two other 4 port ethernet cards in it.  It has a Intel Gigabit ET NIC, Quad Port (430-0657) and a Broadcom NetXtreme II 5709 Gigabit Quad Port NIC.  I don't see any way of disabling PXE capabilities with these nics during the system startup, so I am not sure if these nics are causing the problem or not.

Anyone have any issues on how to get this bugger booting properly?  If not, I guess I will have to engage Dell ProSupport this week to get it working.  I have never seen this problem before on all my Dell servers.

Thanks,

Sean

 


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