Re: ESXi 5.0 installation hanging at 'initializing acpi'

Hi Please Check your Primary boot drive in the BIOS under "Boot Configuration  Features" then "Hard Disk Drives"  to see how your disk is set.

I got around it by setting my primary boot disk to "SATA" instead of "ACHI".

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