Xen users - May 2006 - xen 3.0.2 failed to boot on redhat 4.0u1

Hi,

I installed xen3.0.2 on my machine with redhat 4.0u1 and failed to boot 
due to the following errors:
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 16384)
TCP reno registered
Initializing IPsec netlink socket
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
NET: Registered protocol family 8
NET: Registered protocol family 20
Using IPI No-Shortcut mode
Freeing unused kernel memory: 172k freed
Red Hat nash version 4.2.1.3 starting
Mounted /proc filesystem
Mounting sysfs
Creating /dev
Starting udev
Loading dm-mod.ko module
device-mapper: 4.5.0-ioctl (2005-10-04) initialised: dm-devel@redhat.com
Loading jbd.ko module
Loading ext3.ko module
Loading dm-mirror.ko module
Loading dm-zero.ko module
Loading dm-snapshot.ko module
Making device-mapper control node
Scanning logical volumes
File descriptor 3 left open
  Reading all physical volumes.  This may take a while...
hdc: packet command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdc: packet command error: error=0x54 { AbortedCommand 
LastFailedSense=0x05 }
ide: failed opcode was: unknown
  No volume groups found
Activating logical volumes
File descriptor 3 left open
hdc: packet command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdc: packet command error: error=0x54 { AbortedCommand 
LastFailedSense=0x05 }
ide: failed opcode was: unknown
  Unable to find volume group "VolGroup00"
ERROR: /bin/lvm exited abnormally! (pid 829)
Creating root device
Mounting root filesystem
mount: error 6 mounting ext3
mount: error 2 mounting none
Switching to new root
switchroot: mount failed: 22
umount /initrd/dev failed: 2
Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
 (XEN) Domain 0 crashed: rebooting machine in 5 seconds.

does anyone know why the boot failed. I had 3.0.1 installed on the same 
machine which was able to boot.

Thanks a lot,
Wei

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On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 01:09:00PM -0700, Wei Kong
wrote:
> I installed xen3.0.2 on my machine with redhat 4.0u1 and failed to boot 
> due to the following errors:
[...]
>  Reading all physical volumes.  This may take a while...
> hdc: packet command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> hdc: packet command error: error=0x54 { AbortedCommand 
> LastFailedSense=0x05 }
> ide: failed opcode was: unknown
Your hard drive is dying.

- Matt

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