I had ESXI 5.0 Update 1 installed on my lab Sun x4600 M2 and it was running perfectly.
I was running into some WSVR2012R2 oddities and wanted to upgrade to ESXI 5.5.
I've tried installing from usb disk/usb thumb drive but upon loading it goes to a flashing white cursor in the upper right hand corner of the screen.
I also tried installing it through vmware update manager and it ran successfully but now I'm back at the same point with the flashing cursor again.
I tried following a procedure I found where you hit shift+o and run "runweasel formatwithmbr" during bootup of the install disk but it still goes to the flashing cursor immediately after.
Can anyone point me in the right direction? I had my firewall/router/dns/ad running on this for my house so if it isnt going to work sometime today I'm gonna have to re install from scratch. Luckily i backed everything up to another esxi host I had.
Please advise,
DigitalHoarder
p.s. I know that the Sun X4600 is not technically supported running 5.5 again this is a lab environment. Don't need opinions just want to know if I can get around this issue or not.