I agree with you; in our company, we have lots of RHEL 5.2 (and above) VMs, all running on ESX without any issue like this... Alessandro >This is RH 5. I'm pretty sure this is not a RH boot issue but rather a VMWare >issue. >I'll try the boot with the media/rescue option and see what happens tonight. > > Robert G. Freeman >Oracle ACE -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l