Mounting root failed. Dropping into basic maintenance shell

Posted by vmsystem on Server Fault See other posts from Server Fault or by vmsystem
Published on 2010-01-18T15:59:03Z Indexed on 2010/04/10 15:03 UTC
Read the original article Hit count: 293

Filed under:

vmware-esx

|

unsupported-hardware

Hi,

I have purchased AMD Phenom X4 955 3.2GHZ processor with supporting gigabyte GA-MA785GM-US2H mother board / 6GB DDR2 RAM / 500GB SATA drive for learning Vmware ESX 3.5 product. In the above configuration, I have installed windows xp 64 bit operating systems and continue to installed vmware workstation 6.5. From the VM workstation, I can able to install ESX3.5 update2, but I unable to start properly, please refer the below mention error.

“Mounting root failed. Dropping into basic maintenance shell. To collect logs for VMware, connect a USB storage device and run 'bin/vm-support '. Machine will be rebooted when you exit from this shell.”

The same was tested in the windows 2003 Enterprise Edition server / windows 7 32bit / windows 7 64bit also, Please help me to resolve the issue.

© Server Fault or respective owner

Related posts about vmware-esx

VMWare ESX Updates - Which to Apply?

as seen on Server Fault - Search for 'Server Fault'
Wondering what more experienced ESX admins typically do... I just brought our ESX hosts up to 3.5 Update 5 (Yes, I know we're behind still). I then applied the "Critical Host Updates" baseline in VMWare update manager, and found that we're still short on 14 "critical updates". My question is, do… >>> More
What is better MS HyperV or VMWare ESX?

as seen on Server Fault - Search for 'Server Fault'
I'm looking for a list of pros / cons to compare MS HyperV against VMWare ESX for Virtual Server hosting. >>> More
VMWare ESX, storage over 2TB

as seen on Server Fault - Search for 'Server Fault'
Hi, First of, i'm a webdeveloper and my server experience lies in setting up FreeBSD servers for webserver. I'm working on a project for at photographer, and i'm hired to develop a new online photo ordering system - where user of course can view their photos :) They have a massive need of storage… >>> More
SOLVED: network issue ubuntu 8.04 in vmware esx

as seen on Server Fault - Search for 'Server Fault'
ok, this is really pissing me off I have one ubuntu 8.04 instance running on vmware (esx) which decided after a reboot to stop resolving dns requests, I also cant connect to it using ssh although I can ping the server and its really that server (when I shutdown the server the ping also stops) stuff… >>> More
network issue ubuntu 8.04 in vmware esx

as seen on Server Fault - Search for 'Server Fault'
ok, this is really pissing me off I have one ubuntu 8.04 instance running on vmware (esx) which decided after a reboot to stop resolving dns requests, I also cant connect to it using ssh although I can ping the server and its really that server (when I shutdown the server the ping also stops) stuff… >>> More

Related posts about unsupported-hardware

Mounting root failed. Dropping into basic maintenance shell

as seen on Server Fault - Search for 'Server Fault'
Hi, I have purchased AMD Phenom X4 955 3.2GHZ processor with supporting gigabyte GA-MA785GM-US2H mother board / 6GB DDR2 RAM / 500GB SATA drive for learning Vmware ESX 3.5 product. In the above configuration, I have installed windows xp 64 bit operating systems and continue to installed vmware workstation… >>> More
How to install Radeon Open Source Driver?

as seen on Ask Ubuntu - Search for 'Ask Ubuntu'
I have an MSI Radeon HD 7850 card. MSI provide no Linux support, and the AMD driver gives me an Unsupported Hardware watermark that does not show up in screenshots. I uninstalled the proprietary driver and found that Unity 3D no longer works, and I really only picked Ubuntu because of the excellent… >>> More
How to install Radeon Open Source Driver in Ubuntu 12.04

as seen on Ask Ubuntu - Search for 'Ask Ubuntu'
I have an MSI Radeon HD 7850 card. MSI provide no Linux support, and the AMD driver gives me an Unsupported Hardware watermark that does not show up in screenshots. I uninstalled the proprietary driver and found that Unity 3D no longer works, and I really only picked Ubuntu because of the excellent… >>> More
Problems with Ubuntu and AMD A10-4655M APU

as seen on Ask Ubuntu - Search for 'Ask Ubuntu'
I have a new HP Sleekbook 6z with AMD A10-4655M APU. I tried installing Ubuntu with wubi--the first attempt ended up with a 'AMD unsupported hardware' watermark that I wasn't able to remove (the appeared when I tried to update the drivers as Ubuntu suggested) On the second attempted install Ubuntu… >>> More
Compiling custom kernel 3.7.x lowlatency on Ubuntu 12.04

as seen on Ask Ubuntu - Search for 'Ask Ubuntu'
All, I have a peculiar problem with trying to compile a lowlatency flavor of the latest 3.7 kernel. I retrieved the prepatched source from the launchpad using bzr, compiled it using the usual make-kpkg using the current config file plus default options for the rest, installed the kernel and booted… >>> More