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23.1 Legacy Series / Error with GPT partitions on VMWare ESXi 7.0 - SOLVED
« on: March 06, 2023, 06:30:01 pm »
Hello everyone. I'm having a problem installing OPNSense on VMWare ESXi 7.0.
Using default install procedure I receive the following error, when the install prcedure is in the disk partition step
Error mounting partition /mnt/boot/efi
mount_msdosfs: /dev/gpt/efifs: Invalid argument
The same error occurs if BIOS or EFI is selected in the VM setup.
This does not happen with VMWare ESXi 6.7 where I have installed several versions of OPNSense many times.
Using EFI/GPT does have any advantage? If the answer is yes, do you suggest any workaround ?
Or if it's not possible tuo use GPT, which of the disk partition options it would be advisable to use, BSD or MSDOS.?
I appreciate any advice
Many thanks
Norberto
Using default install procedure I receive the following error, when the install prcedure is in the disk partition step
Error mounting partition /mnt/boot/efi
mount_msdosfs: /dev/gpt/efifs: Invalid argument
The same error occurs if BIOS or EFI is selected in the VM setup.
This does not happen with VMWare ESXi 6.7 where I have installed several versions of OPNSense many times.
Using EFI/GPT does have any advantage? If the answer is yes, do you suggest any workaround ?
Or if it's not possible tuo use GPT, which of the disk partition options it would be advisable to use, BSD or MSDOS.?
I appreciate any advice
Many thanks
Norberto