[MagellanTX]

I'm using the x64_public_vga_image on ESXi 6.5 and have run into an issue with the more recent releases.

The June 25, 2020 (and prior) images work normally for me, but images from July 03, 2020 and later aren't booting correctly. It looks like the images from July and onward are using a new Grub menu and the initial boot works just fine, however, any boot afterward causes it to hang at the "Booting the Kernel".

I've tried different hardware configurations including different CPU/Memory combinations and different hard drive controllers (SATA/SCSI/IDE) but nothing seems to work.

Here are the steps that I did to trigger the behavior:

Install the image & perform initial boot
Login to the CLI
Execute 'reboot' command

Any ideas?

Thanks!

[eibgrad]

FWIW, recently had the same issue w/ Oracle VirtualBox. First boot is fine, after that, boot process just hangs. Tried numerous changes to settings, but nothing helped. Finally gave up. No idea what the issue is, but initially I assumed it was some incompatibility between VB and dd-wrt. Apparently it's dd-wrt to blame. Good to know it's not just me.

EDIT: Looks like this problem persists and effects all installations, not just VMs. Just tried build v44213 (8/18/20), same problem. Boots once, then never again. Had to go back to the last working build I'm aware of (DD-WRT v3.0-r43904 std (07/23/20).

[eibgrad]

FWIW, I just posted a bug report about the problem.

https://svn.dd-wrt.com/ticket/7206#ticket

[MagellanTX]

[eibgrad]

Thanks, I'll have to check it out. BS may very well have found a problem and quietly fixed it (he's a man of few words).