Our VMWare server ESX 2.5.3 self-crashed & failed to boot up. It stopped at the point "VM Kernel ..." while booting up Is this a hardware or ESX OS fault? If OS fault, is there any way to copy over a good kernel or boot up from single user to recover from it? We don't have any backup of the ESX, only the Wintel clients (ie the VMs are the only ones with backup) I was told in the past we just need to reinstall ESX but now we can't even find the old ESX 2.5.3 media (just shifted office/ datacentre). Can we use the ESX 3.5.3 media (but was told we don't have the licence) -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list