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Once you get to the “Press enter to install screen” you’ll need to press enter and then CTRL-O (that’s an O like Oscar) and you should see a prompt in the bottom left that says “runweasel”. In version 6.7+ the “formatwithmbr” option is no longer supported. Just like it sounds, once the USB drive is cleaned off, you’ll want to boot up using the ESXi 6.5 installer ISO.

Install 6.5 with “formatwithmbr” option.

Turns out what I needed to do was a 2 step process In vSphere 6.7 we stopped supporting MBR partitioning when installing ESXi, thus it defaults to GPT formatting and then I found this post: … which pretty much sealed it, I needed a workaround. I turned to Google and found several references to HP D元60p’s G8s having problems with booting from USB and that I should stand on my head while dancing a hula or some such thing to get it working and then NEVER EVER reboot again! Turns out my “vintage” server (released 8 years ago!) doesn’t have UEFI support. It was just booting from USB and I was running 6.7U3 on it before the old USB drive died.

Check BIOS, yup USB boot enabled, USB ports enabled. It wasn’t booting from the newly installed USB drive?! I tried all the normal things. Booted up, went through install, Cruzer was detected and the install completed in 6ish minutes. Easy peasy I thought and swapped out the 8GB PNY (that had served me for 2+ years mind you) and mapped up the newest vSphere 6.7U3 iso to the virtual CDROM in ILO.

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Legacy boot to MS-DOS, FreeDOS, Win98, XP with SATA\RAID Mass Storage drivers automatically added, Linux, Windows Vista-10, ISOs, Windows VHDs, WIM files, etc.After a quick search I went to Walgreen’s and picked up a new 64GB Sandisk Cruzr, on sale for $18.which may break when a new distro is released. Unlike other solutions such as YUMI, Ventoy, Multiboot, etc.

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Generic method of booting Linux ISOs (no need to update E2B every few months because a new Linux distro no longer works!).Į2B and agFM use the ‘Easy2Boot/partnew’ technique which is successful in booting over 99% of all Linux ISOs.

HFS + others (files can be over 4GB as NTFS is used).

MemTest86 and FreeDOS are already included.

They also list the workarounds for this as either install to a non SD. boot usb iso vmware

Secure UEFI64 booting is supported (unless blocked by UEFI DBx blacklist in BIOS) – Once booted to the agFM menu, secure boot is temporarily disabled so all ISOs can be booted, In the ongoing saga of SD-Card/USB-boot device support in ESXi, VMware has just published a new KB article named Persistent storage warnings when booting ESXi from SD-Card/USB devices (85615) outlining that from 7.0u3 (at the time of writing, not released yet) onward support for such boot devices is deprecated.Ventoy for Easy2Boot (optional) – for Legacy\MBR and UEFI32\64 booting based on open source grub2-based Ventoy project.agFM ( a1ive grub2 File Manager) (optional) – for Legacy\MBR and UEFI32\UEFI64 booting based on open source a1ive’s version of grub2 and grubfm.Easy2Boot – original E2B Legacy\MBR booting based on grub4dos.Easy2Boot supports up to 3 different menu systems.E2B v2.11 (also older Beta v2.10g with grub4efi).Over 1 million downloads – E2B is used by techs, repair shops, schools and Universities all over the world.This means it is often more successful than Ventoy. E2B and agFM use a generic method of booting Linux ISOs.E2B includes three menu systems – E2B grub4dos, agFM/grubfm and Ventoy for the best chance of booting any payload!.Boot to (almost) anything ( Legacy/UEFI64/UEFI32/Secure Boot) from just one USB drive for free!.

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Add payload files (ISO, WIM, EFI, VHD, etc.)Į2B – the free USB multiboot solution for professionals

E2B – the free USB multiboot solution for professionals.

‘File Not Contiguous’ and ‘Too Many Fragments’ Errors.

Boot Windows 11 on non-TPM systems using Ventoy.

FreeBSD, GhostBSD, MidnightBSD, OPNsense, FreeNAS & pfSense.

WInPE ISOs (WinBuilder, Medicat, Gandalf, etc.).

WinPE multi-function (Hirens-type) ISOs.

Installing Linux from an ISO file onto a system.

MBR-boot from a Debian\Kali ISO with persistence.

Ubuntu-based ISO + persistence (.isopersist).

Update the XP 32-bit Mass Storage drivers.

PassPass (bypass Windows local password).

Installing Windows XP\7\8\10 using WinNTSetup.

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Install Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2.

UEFI – Adding Windows 7/8/10 which have >4GB Install.wim/Install.esd files.