Quicktip: esxcfg-boot Runs Forever

It is sometimes necessary to cause VMware ESX 3.x to recreate its bootloader.   This is generally done by running the following command sequence:
esxcfg-boot -b
esxcfg-boot -p
esxcfg-boot -r
You might find that these commands run indefinitely on your ESX servers if you alias ‘cp’ or ‘mv’ to ‘cp -i’ or ‘mv -i’ respectively in your /root/.bashrc file.  The [...]