PowerEdge 1950 Boot (RHEL 4ES U4)

[Tom Brown]

> It panics with the following (not word perfert as I scribbled it down):
> 
> ide0: I/O resource 0x3F6-0x3F6 not free
> ide0: ports already in use, skipping probe
> 
> red hat nash version 4.2.1.8 starting
> reading all physical volumes
> no volume groups found
> volume group VolGroup00 not found
> 
> ERROR: /bin/lvm exited abnormally (pid 431)
> mount error 6 mounting ext3
> mount error 2 mounting none
> ... root mount failed 22
> umount /initrd/dev failed 2
> panic ...
> 
> Ideas?

i am afraid i do not have ideas but i can tell you our 1950's that were 
installed with u4 and then up2date'd are currently at

Linux xxxxxxxxx 2.6.9-42.0.2.ELsmp

and these work fine.