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Dell Studio 15 1558 Laptop

TommyNott
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ESXi 4 installation (with U1, I believe).

Makes it to the "Starting vmkernel initialization" screen (after loading all the vgz\'s and tgz\'s, like image.tgz) - and then immediately reboots the machine.

Have tried various boot options like noACPI and nocheckCPUIDLimit - all with same result.

Attempted booting to ESXi 3.5 update 2 installation CD - errors out with "no available memory under 4GB" - have not tried boot options with 3.5

System hardware:

Studio 15 (1558)
4GB 1333MHz DDR3 RAM
Intel i3-330m CPU
500GB 7200RPM SATA HD

SATA controller - not sure, I believe intel 82801HBM/HEM - it does have an eSATA port on this unit
Integrated NIC - I think Intel? But still - not sure.

Next step will be to try booting to USB-stick - if anybody else has experience with this machine and ESXi 4 (or even 3.5) please let me know.

Thanks,

Tommy Nott
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I get the same symptoms on an Inspiron 1564

Anyone have any ideas?
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