I can't get this to work, I'm probably doing something daft as per usual...
I installed Windows7 64-bit on a hard drive. Fine
I disconnected the W7 hard drive, connected a second hard drive, and installed ESXi 4.1. Fine
Note that the first time you boot ESXi after install it wipes and reformats all the other drives on the host to VMFS format so would have killed W7 if I'd left it there.
I reconnected the W7 drive, set that as the boot drive in BIOS and rebooted into W7. Fine
I installed EasyBCD.
ESXi uses SYSLINUX to boot so I added an entry with EasyBCD:
Linux/BSD
LILO/eLILO
Partition 3 - E\: as FAT 4MiB (this is Hypervisor0, the partition with the boot flag set)
Then using BCDedit, I changed the Path entry to: \ldlinux.sys
I booted and it failed, couldn't find \ldlinux.sys.
Then I noticed that the drive was set to C:, so I changed that to E: as there are two partitions on the first (W7 boot) disk.
So I booted and it hung. It found ldlinux.sys, but the boot didn't work - no msgs.
I'm wondering if the fact that I had to change the disk from C: to E: is significant?
Or, is \ldlinux.sys the wrong setting?
Any ideas?
I installed Windows7 64-bit on a hard drive. Fine
I disconnected the W7 hard drive, connected a second hard drive, and installed ESXi 4.1. Fine
Note that the first time you boot ESXi after install it wipes and reformats all the other drives on the host to VMFS format so would have killed W7 if I'd left it there.
I reconnected the W7 drive, set that as the boot drive in BIOS and rebooted into W7. Fine
I installed EasyBCD.
ESXi uses SYSLINUX to boot so I added an entry with EasyBCD:
Linux/BSD
LILO/eLILO
Partition 3 - E\: as FAT 4MiB (this is Hypervisor0, the partition with the boot flag set)
Then using BCDedit, I changed the Path entry to: \ldlinux.sys
I booted and it failed, couldn't find \ldlinux.sys.
Then I noticed that the drive was set to C:, so I changed that to E: as there are two partitions on the first (W7 boot) disk.
So I booted and it hung. It found ldlinux.sys, but the boot didn't work - no msgs.
I'm wondering if the fact that I had to change the disk from C: to E: is significant?
Or, is \ldlinux.sys the wrong setting?
Any ideas?
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