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The Reliable USB Formatting Utility
https://rufus.ie
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ESXI 6 ISO #471

Closed atkin05 closed 9 years ago

atkin05 commented 9 years ago

When trying to open the ESXI 6 ISO I get an error: This version of Rufus only supports bootable ISOs based on bootmgr/WinPE, ISOlinux or EFI. This ISO doesnt appear to be either. Would it be possible to add support for what ever the ESXI 6 ISO is using?

pbatard commented 9 years ago

I'd like nothing more than investigate issues with ESXi 6... if I could get my hands on an ISO. I subscribed to the ESXi 6 BETA on the VMWare site, but I never got anything back with regards to testing...

atkin05 commented 9 years ago

I have the trial ISO. Do you have somewhere I could upload it? It's available free from VMware and lasts 60 days.

pbatard commented 9 years ago

Finally got it from the VMWare site. What version of ESXi 6.0 are you using?

I got the trial VMware-VMvisor-Installer-6.0.0-2494585.x86_64.iso off the VMWare website, and I have no issue opening it. That image seems to have both EFI and Syslinux boot support, and I was able to create the USB without trouble...

pbatard commented 9 years ago

No update from OP → Closing.

atkin05 commented 9 years ago

VMware-VIMSetup-all-6.0.0-2562643

Matt

pbatard commented 9 years ago

Well, that ISO doesn't seem to be bootable at all. have you checked that you could actually boot it using an optical drive if you write it to a DVD? Especially, it doesn't even seem to use El Torito, let alone any other boot method. I tried to boot a VM using that ISO, and it just doesn't...

Rufus will not magically make an ISO bootable if it can't be booted from the CD or DVD in the first place...

atkin05 commented 9 years ago

Thats really odd, i revisited the same link in "my vmware" and it's change the downloader, it's working now.

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