I just upgraded the BIOS and the firmware in teh SAS 6/iR controller to the latest versions from Dell and all is working now.  I suupose I should have tried that first. I have seen mention of installing and running ESXi from a USB stick - when I tried that my installation said there were no supported devices found for it.  I made sure the BIOS was set to emulate the USB stick as a hard drive.
Hi, I am trying to install VMware ESXi on a PE2950.  The install goes fine, it recognizes the hardware, but after the install it will not boot - I get the "strike F1 to retry boot, or F2 for Setup Utility' message.  I have tried the Dell customized ISO of ESXi with the same result.  I also tried using the Dell System Build Utility but only ESX is an option, not ESXi so the disc is rejected. Any help is appreciated.  Thanks in advance.
Installing VMware ESXi on PE2950