After install process completes, on first boot of ESX system the following error messages appear:
VGA: 297: VGA start b8000 end c0000 mapped start c00b8000 char height 16
VGA: 397:
VGA: 425: 0
Console: switching to colour VMNIX-VGA 80×25
VGA: 465: 0
Console: switching to colour VGA+ 80×25
WARNING: Mod: 2434: Initialization of vmkernel failed, status 0xbad0013
Mod: 4406: Waiting for vmklogger to dump log buffer…
Warning: Mod: 4429: Dumping vmkernel log buffer (5162 bytes):
after the rest of the Service console loads it indicates that a critical error and that the vmkernel didn’t load
We’re running on an HP DL385 (dual opeteron at 2.6 GHz) running the VMware Starter edition off of an array.
Strange – the solution of the problem was just to put the DIMMs into the right place – the memory was placed incorrectly as we didn’t read the decals on the box. hehe…