I could do, if there were any around. I'd forgotten how much of a pain physical servers could be, especially without shared storage in use. I'll see if I can steal a spare from one of the decommissioned ProLiants that are (apparently) hiding somewhere.
On 17 September 2010 13:23, Andrew S. Baker <asbz...@gmail.com> wrote: > Perhaps the NIC had gone bad. Try replacing it? > > -ASB: http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker > > Sent from my Motorola Droid > > On Sep 17, 2010 8:00 AM, "James Rankin" <kz2...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > I think that's correct, but this one won't start with them enabled > either, > > and it was working fine until recently. Is there any equivalent of the > > "ping" command in the ESXi tech support console that anyone knows of? > > > > On 17 September 2010 12:58, Joseph L. Casale <jcas...@activenetwerx.com > >wrote: > > > >> AFAIK ESXi wont start w/o a nic at all. > >> > >> > >> > >> *From:* James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] > >> *Sent:* Friday, September 17, 2010 1:12 AM > >> *To:* NT System Admin Issues > >> *Subject:* ESXi box failing to start > > >> > >> > >> > >> I've got an ESXi box failing to start that stops with an error of > "failed > >> to load lvmdriver". All my Google-fu points to an incompatible network > card, > >> but it was working fine until a few days ago. I've tried starting it > with > >> the NICs disabled, but it makes no difference whatsoever. Does anyone > have > >> any ideas what might be causing it? > >> > >> TIA, > >> > >> > >> > >> JRR > >> > >> -- > >> "On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put > into > >> the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not > able > >> rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke > such > >> a question." > >> > >> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > >> ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > >> > >> --- > >> To manage subscriptions click here: > >> http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > >> or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com > >> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > >> > >> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > >> ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > >> > >> --- > >> To manage subscriptions click here: > >> http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > >> or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com > >> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > "On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into > > the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not > able > > rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke > such > > a question." > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > > > --- > > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > > or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com > > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > -- "On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
