Unable to boot machine "respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes"

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Issue

  • Unable to boot a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 machine.

  • System hangs with error messages early in the init process.
    init: Id "4" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes 
init: Id "3" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes 
init: Id "5" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes 
init: Id "1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes 
init: Id "2" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes 
init: Id "6" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 update 5

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