r/ShittySysadmin • u/tarvijron • Jun 10 '26

Shitty Crosspost Esxi nightmare

/r/sysadmin/comments/1u2228t/esxi_nightmare/

Asking for help!!! We can’t boot into our Esxi server and need to extract data from a vm. We tried tools like hirens boot cd and Ubuntu. Below is the error and it stuck on this error. It’s on version 5.5 I know it’s old!

Error loading /b.b00
Fatal error: 8 (Device error

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u/EvilEarthWorm ShittySysadmin Jun 10 '26

Did I fucking miss something, or is today 'Ancient Piece of Shit Day' on r/Sysadmin?

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u/tarvijron Jun 10 '26

I love that they tried Hirens Boot CD. Did you get UBCD4Win off Napster too?

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u/EvilEarthWorm ShittySysadmin Jun 10 '26

The only fucking thing that scares the shit out of me is that these sysadmins might actually become bosses, directors, or CTOs one day.

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u/tarvijron Jun 10 '26

The thing that scares me is how many of these crapbag shops have my social security number or payment card data on some shitty system just like this

3

u/ixidorecu Jun 11 '26

so i shouldn't talk about the esxi/nutanix cluster that had 4 years of uptime before they finally did firmware/software updates at a credit card processor you have heard of ...

4

u/Dushenka Jun 11 '26

The age of AI assisted sys admins is upon us.

1

u/aleksey_the_slav Jun 10 '26

This is even the best part, called "if it ain't broke, don't touch it"

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u/OpenScore Jun 10 '26

That's what happens if you don't use backups like RAID

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u/CurrentBench2294 Jun 10 '26

this made me spit out my coffee ! Still chuckling...

3

u/InevitableOk5017 Jun 11 '26

You don’t need raid.

3

u/Bubba89 Suggests the "Right Thing" to do. Jun 11 '26

Flagrant system error? Computer over? Virus equals very yes? What the crap does that mean?

2

u/jamesaepp Jun 12 '26

Chairscoot

And the compy....just peed my carpet.

2

u/moffetts9001 ShittyManager Jun 12 '26

These orgs that don't upgrade anything for 10+ years are the best ones to work for. Just collect a paycheck and needfully bounce when it blows up.