Greetings friends, making several upgrades the other day I found the next error that breaks you in the morning if you are in a hurry and you are performing upgrades of ESXi, the error in question happened to me when I tried to update using an ESXi bundle:
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[InstallationError] There was an error checking file system on altbootbank, please see log for detail. Please refer to the log file for more details. |
Steps to troubleshoot the error easily
Fortunately the problem is solved in just a few seconds, the first thing we will have to do is check that the partition is OK and see the information of it:
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vmkfstools -P /altbootbank/ |
This will return something similar to the following, be very attentive to the Partitions spanned part, as we will use this information later:
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vfat-0.04 (Raw Major Version: 0) file system spanning 1 partitions. File system label (if any): Mode: private Capacity 261853184 (63929 file blocks * 4096), 87220224 (21294 blocks) avail, max supported file size 0 UUID: 2afcf7ef-53839aff-43f1-432714380654 Partitions spanned (on "disks"): naa.200049454505080f:5 Is Native Snapshot Capable: NO |
The next command will be launched against the partition that has shown us the vmkfstools command:
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dosfsck -a -w /dev/disks/naa.200049454505080f:5 |
Which will show us something like the next:
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dosfsck 2.11, 12 Mar 2005, FAT32, LFN /dev/disks/naa.200049454505080f:5: 212 files, 42635/63929 clusters |
If we try to launch the ESXi update command again using the bundle, we won’t have any more problems. I hope it serves you well.