During booting, system fails at "Checking root filesystem"

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Issue

  • During booting, system fails at "Checking root filesystem" with the following error:
fsck: error while loading shared libraries: libblkid.so.1: cannot open shared object file: Input/output error.
  • Systems then drops to maintenance mode, requesting root login. Once logged in, similar errors result. Running LVM / ext3 under OS.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4

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