In version 6.7+ the “formatwithmbr” option is no longer supported. Just like it sounds, once the USB drive is cleaned off, you’ll want to boot up using the ESXi 6.5 installer ISO. Install 6.5 with “formatwithmbr” option.Turns out what I needed to do was a 2 step process In vSphere 6.7 we stopped supporting MBR partitioning when installing ESXi, thus it defaults to GPT formatting and then I found this post: … which pretty much sealed it, I needed a workaround. I turned to Google and found several references to HP D元60p’s G8s having problems with booting from USB and that I should stand on my head while dancing a hula or some such thing to get it working and then NEVER EVER reboot again! Turns out my “vintage” server (released 8 years ago!) doesn’t have UEFI support. It was just booting from USB and I was running 6.7U3 on it before the old USB drive died. Check BIOS, yup USB boot enabled, USB ports enabled. It wasn’t booting from the newly installed USB drive?! I tried all the normal things. Booted up, went through install, Cruzer was detected and the install completed in 6ish minutes. Easy peasy I thought and swapped out the 8GB PNY (that had served me for 2+ years mind you) and mapped up the newest vSphere 6.7U3 iso to the virtual CDROM in ILO. After a quick search I went to Walgreen’s and picked up a new 64GB Sandisk Cruzr, on sale for $18.
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