After configuring all the information, go to the interface and press F11 to start the installation. After installation, press enter in this interface to restart. After the restart, the naked hard disk already has the ESXi system and the full-text interface of the ESXi server. Because in the real environment, we rarely need to. How to fix an ESXi 6.0 fix corrupted host imageprofile. Note: Even we have already copied the Profile and VIBs files from the working ESXi (tasks explained in the previous articles and above), we can also do the next step to copy that files into the corrupted ESXi host using the imgdb.tgz file. For that, we need to extract the file and copy the folders.
*As always, I am presenting a way that I fixed my issue with this specific error. Proceed as your own risk as your environment may be different from mine!
From time to time I mix it up a bit and go off topic from Cisco. Today is that day. If you have been following me on Twitter (@TheRoutingTable) then you know I had an issue with a VMHost of mine. The error that I was getting was “Error loading /k.b00 Fatal error: 33 (Inconsistent data)”. I came across a bunch of ways to possibly resolve this issue and wanted to share the way that I used.
Background
For reference, I boot VMWare ESXi off of a usb flash drive for each of my hosts. I chose to use a cheap, bargain-bin flash drive because it’s what I had around when I built this host. Which brings me to my most important recommendation:
ALWAYS BACKUP YOUR VM HOST CONFIG!
Ok, good. Got that out of my system. Of course, as I’m sure you guessed, I didn’t have a backup. Luckily there is a reasonably quick fix.
The Fix: Error loading /k.b00 Fatal error: 33 (Inconsistent data)
After searching the web I found people talking about modifying the image on the flash drive to replace corrupted files such as the one mentioned in the error (Error loading /k.b00) and other fixes that required a good bit of work. In my case, this was a single, standalone host in a home environment. I created a new usb flash drive with VMWare ESXi on it. Important note is to make sure you use the same version you had before you received the error.
I booted to the new drive on my host and it was treating things like a new install. Go ahead and configure things like a new VM Host while choosing this new flash drive as your install media. That way your partition with your datastore is unaffected. ***That is key!*** Make sure not to overwrite your datastore partition if stored locally!
Once you are booted up and you connect to your VM Host, you will need to recreate your vSwitch settings such as vlans, etc. Other global settings will need to be reconfigured as well. Then, it’s not too bad to get back to working. You choose the option to “Register a VM”, instead of creating a new one. Then browse the old vmfs that your datastore was on and find your directory for each virtual machine. You can choose each VM accordingly and register them with your new VMWare ESXi install. Then, you want to verify settings such as network and then you should be able to power them up as normal.
Loading Esxi Installer Fatal Error 33
Summary
Yes, I did end up reinstalling the VM host from scratch on a new usb drive, but it seemed much quicker than the process to repair the usb drive that was corrupted. Especially in a home environment, this may be a more suitable option, but may also help in certain business settings as well. Weighing the options, this just seemed to be the best option for my situation.
Esxi Installer Fatal Error 33 10
Hope this can help someone else!
I was deploying ESXi 6 on a new server, booting off USB thumb-drive where I put the ESXi installer. (Installer creatred with Rufus), I got the following error just a few seconds into the install
Error loading /k.b00
Compressed MD5: 23a1XXXXXXXXXX
Decompressed MD5: 00000000000000000000000000
Fatal error: 33 (Inconsistent data)
Compressed MD5: 23a1XXXXXXXXXX
Decompressed MD5: 00000000000000000000000000
Fatal error: 33 (Inconsistent data)
Esxi Installer Fatal Error 33 Inconsistent Data
Turned out to be a bad USB drive.
Bad (usually cheap generic drives) work well for storing files, but in my experience, lack the ability to be used as install media or “Live CD’s”. I am not sure what makes one drive work over the other, but assume it has to do with the controller interface on those drives.
Bad (usually cheap generic drives) work well for storing files, but in my experience, lack the ability to be used as install media or “Live CD’s”. I am not sure what makes one drive work over the other, but assume it has to do with the controller interface on those drives.