Hi,
Asus P7P55D Intel P55 LGA1156 ATX mobo
Intel Core i5-750 2.66GHz
2xKingston Valueram 2GB 1333MHz DDR3, CL9
Western Digital Caviar Green 1TB SATAII 32MB
Kingston 2GB USB flash drive
Nvidia cheapest video board on stock

At beginning following were not working
Realtek lan
Jbod
IC10 Sata

Surfing forum and founded Jbod driver, to get it working pci map address was 197b:2363 0000:0000 storage pata_jmicron.o

Next I stubled in ACHI.o driver founded also in forum, and just mapping 8086:3b22 0000:0000 storage ahci.o

and finally there was this problematic RTL8111/8168B, on forun there was lot of drivers for this. Working version was r8168.o (2692Kb) and mapping 10ec:8168 0000:0000 network r8168.o

Also config bios remove hyperthreading, running sata in ahci mode.

I'm running ESXi4 system from USB.

Big thanks for all contibuters and help file writers!!
-Marko V

Hi Mac,
Is it possible may you write to here where you found drivers,modules,etc...
as link.
or if possible may you upload your used esxi iso image to someware or give it to link to me.

i have same model with you mainboard and im baby of the vm

many thanks
Onur
regards
Onur

I too am trying to get this system working, if you would be willing to share your completed ISO that would be great.

Many thanks,
Jeremy

Hi Mar, Ooskay, Jnerpel,

How is your server status? I bought the P7P55D MB yesterday for the VM server and I hit the same problem. Would you mind sharing the oem.tgz file or the forum? This is my first time to touch vm. Thanks so much.

Arthur

Hey Mac,
I've got a P7P55D-E board and try as I might I cannot get it to recognise IDE HDD's.

I'll have a look again tonight, but I think maybe it's not recognising the JMicron JMB363 SATA & PATA Controller. I'm not in front of the box now so I can't retrieve class:device id

Can you please make your oem.tgz, or better still complete .iso available?

Thanks!

Fixed! Thanks Mac for pointing me in the right direction.

Do not try to edit simple file using Windows! Boot up off Knoppix and then edit away changing:

197b:2363 0000:0000 storage ahci.o
to
197b:2363 0000:0000 storage pata_jmicron.o

I alos incluced the driver for my Sil 3124 SATII 4 port.

I'll attach oem.tgz soon.

Works perfect for me, with nearly the same components

Asus P7P55D
I7 860
...

After various painful failures trying to install 4.1 using the various techniques described on vm-help, I finally used version 3.9.5 of Varazir script with 4.0 U1 and the oem.tgz from viewtopic.php?f=12&t=1272, and it worked perfectly.

I was a bit ashamed of not managing to do it myself, but it works, so I won't be difficult

Hi Guys,

up to now i've experiences with vmware server on microsoft basis and just want to step over to ESXi now, so please forgive me being an unfamiliar beginner in here.

I've just configured a whitebox very similar to the mac's mashine (cpu, board, memory). When i try to install the current ESXi 4.1.0 the process aborts with "Unable to find system image to install. This is due to the image not being mounted correctly or the CD-ROM not being supported."

Also i unfortunately didnt succeed to create a modified iso with the advices given in the related threads.

So i would be really happy if you could share your results with me and help me to understand what changes have to be done for a working ESXi installation. After a whole weekend trying to modify several iso's (4.1 and 4.0), verifying checksums, changing bios-options, doing the recommended standard-checks and fixes, i'm feeling like don't kow where's right or left

Martin

Is it an IDE or USB CD-ROM? Do you have a USB flash device that you could boot from?

Hi Dave,

thanks for your reply

i'm using an IDE DVD-ROM which i also replaced by another one for debugging.
USB flash sticks are available and also capable to boot successfully with the whitebox (for example DSL-Linux).

Martin