Environment
When attempting to convert a Red Hat Enterprise 5.1 to ESX4 the target virtual machine will hang on boot during the “Starting udev” step.
Situation
Error messages such as: udev-095-14 failed to start in a timely manner when running RHEL 5.1 on ESX4 is a known issue as reported by Red Hat.
Resolution
The following link has additional information regarding this issue as well as a possible workaround: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=413831