Delete old partitions

[khoe]

Hi

I have installed esxi on a usb and booted my server up. Esxi is running fine.

Now I want to make sure that the server won't boot up to the old esx installation on local harddrive.

So I want to delete old partitions containing esx. I cannot format/delete whole disk/datastore because it is one disk containing vmfs datastore and virtual servers. That is why I made the installation on a usb, when the person who made the installation made one big disk :-(

I have 4 logical linux partions (2x8gb and 2x2gb) and a VMKcore partions left.

When I use fdisk a try to delete then and save settings I get the following error message:

The partition table has been altered!

Calling loct1() to re-read partition table

fdisk: WARNING: rereading partition table failed, kernel still uses old table: Function not implemented.

What shoud I do to get rid og the old partitions

ESXi is running on usb now and everything works.

Please help

Best regards

Kim Hørsted

[idle-jam]

try booting up with partition utility like gparted live cd and remove from there ..

[krishna_v78]

Hi,

I guess you can edit grub.conf boot file and remove the entry for boot partition. pl have a backup before making changes.

[khoe]

Okay,

Where do I find grub.conf?

[krishna_v78]

this workaround will help you to make sure that your ESX server is not booted using hard disk.

you can find in /boot/grub.conf

you can delete the entry only if boot partition is mentioned something like /dev/sdax or /dev/hdax in grub.conf

[khoe]

Okay

But is this placed on my usb then? And how do I mount my usb to be able to see the boot folder?