ONTAP 8.2.1 7-Mode simulator : Root Image Device: Input required

sudhirchamp2005 — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 10:32:58 GMT

I had configured ONTAP 8.2.1 7-Mode simulator couple of months ago in my ESXi 6.5. It worked fine. I noticed today the following error:

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Unable to read environment from CF card!

Please re-create your VM environment.

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for which I followed the solution here of adding an empty floppy drive.

Now this error is gone. But when I reboot the SIM, It asks me to provide the following:

Can you please help me what shall I provide here as an input?

Also, I don't get "press ctrl-C" banner

Re: ONTAP 8.2.1 7-Mode simulator : Root Image Device: Input required

sudhirchamp2005 — Wed, 03 Mar 2021 15:19:50 GMT

This is how my configuration for this VM looks like

sudhirchamp2005 — Thu, 04 Mar 2021 08:07:06 GMT

Does anybody have an idea on this ?