{"id":592,"date":"2012-02-21T04:54:06","date_gmt":"2012-02-21T09:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bodhost.com\/blog\/?p=592"},"modified":"2026-02-26T13:59:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T13:59:06","slug":"following-the-crash-of-esx-more-boot-os","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bodhost.com\/blog\/following-the-crash-of-esx-more-boot-os\/","title":{"rendered":"Following the crash of ESX, more boot OS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- @page { margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } -->ESX Server may not want to load its operating system if it was abruptly stopped or has crashed. It usually returns the following error message:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKernel Panic: VFS unable to mount :: root fs on 0:00\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To correct this problem, please follow the following procedure:<\/p>\n<p><strong>For ESX 3.x <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Restart the server<\/li>\n<li>Select \u201cConsole-mode service troubleshooting&#8221; The GRUB boot<\/li>\n<li>Connect with the user account root<\/li>\n<li>Enter the command &#8221; esxcfg-boot-p&#8221; To update the PCI settings<\/li>\n<li>Enter the command &#8221; esxcfg-boot-b&#8221; To update the startup parameters<\/li>\n<li>Enter the command &#8221; esxcfg-boot-r&#8221; To update the boot files<\/li>\n<li>Restart the server with the command &#8221; shutdown-r 0 \u00bb<\/li>\n<li>Choose a classic start (default)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>For ESX 4.x<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Restart the server<\/li>\n<li>Select \u201cTroubleshooting User&#8221; The GRUB boot<\/li>\n<li>Connect with the user account root<\/li>\n<li>Enter the command \u201cesxcfg-boot-b&#8221; To update the startup parameters<\/li>\n<li>Restart the server with the command &#8221; shutdown-r 0 \u00bb<\/li>\n<li>Choose a classic start (default)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ESX Server may not want to load its operating system if it was abruptly stopped or has crashed. It usually returns the following error message: \u201cKernel Panic: VFS unable to mount :: root fs on 0:00\u201d To correct this problem, please follow the following procedure: For ESX 3.x Restart the server Select \u201cConsole-mode service troubleshooting&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[1082],"class_list":["post-592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cloud-hosting","tag-esx"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bodhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bodhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bodhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bodhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bodhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=592"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bodhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5641,"href":"https:\/\/www.bodhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592\/revisions\/5641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bodhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bodhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bodhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}