Issue/Introduction:
This article will detail common causes for an ESXi host failing to boot following an installation or upgrade.
Symptoms:
ESXi host installation or upgrade completes successfully but may have these issues:
- ESXi installation fails to boot after installation or upgrade.
- ESXi installation gives errors when booting after installation or upgrade.
- May receive one or more of these errors:
- Failed to load vmkernel: 0xbad0013
- Error 15: Could not find file
- Util : 815 : Status 0xbad0001 trying to get a valid VMKernel MAC address. Various vmkernel subsystems will provide lower quality of service
- 0:00:47.675
- NOT_IMPLEMENTED /build/mts/release/bora-84374/bora/vmkernel/main/util.c:83
- VSD mount/bin/sh:can't access TTY; job control turned off.