Linux Guest Hangs at “Starting udev” on VMware vSphere

Converted a Linux (Fedora 5) PC to a VMware vSphere guest.  The Linux guest OS hangs at “Starting udev”.

Fix:

1. Restart the Linux guest OS;
2. Press any key at the GRUB boot menu, press e to edit, and add the highlighted words at the “kernel” line; press enter, and then b to boot;
   kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2257.fc5smp ro root=/dev/sdb1 clock=pmtmr divider=10 hgb quiet
3. Once it boots in the console, edit /boot/grub/grub.conf with the same setting.

Reference: http://itsecureadmin.com/2010/03/linux-guest-hangs-at-starting-udev-vmware-vsphere/
or http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1006427