System with malfunctioning disk present hung in partition check during start up on RHEL4.6 and RHEL5.5beta

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • System hung starting up in the partition check with a malfunctioning disk present

  • "sense=02/0401" was returned in an endless loop

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Update 6, kernel-2.6.9-67

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Update 5 Beta, kernel-2.6.18-186.el5

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