Hello,
I've been using an Intel NUC 8th gen as my home ESXi 6.7 U3 server 6 months, what I did was install ESXi on the internal SSD drive and it's been working well. Something has corrupted my host recently and I want to rebuild. On the SSD is also my Datastore 1 and I also have another SSD inside with Datastore 2.
Anyway many have said boot off a USB key instead and just keep the datastore 1 and 2 on each disk, I like this idea.
Well I just used Rufus and built a bootable USB drive with 6.7 U3 and it boots off the USB key fine, but gets to a point where it can't find a network card/device and has to halt. It has a 1GB port and what is strange when I installed this 6 months ago to the internal SSD it installed find it, why is booting off USB different? Do I need to inject the drivers?
If I reboot into my corrupt host I can ping the host so the NIC is fine and recognised.
Don't know what to do now
Any ideas?
Thanks