Xen Virtual machine is stuck at boot with "Boot device: Hard Disk - failure: could not read boot disk"

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Xen Virtual machine is stuck at boot with "Boot device: Hard Disk - failure: could not read boot disk"

Environment

  • Xen (3rd party) Virtual guest
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (any)

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