System Fails to boot with error message "Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x8e"

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Issue

  • System boots to grub prompt and manually trying to boot from grub fails with error message "Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x8e/0x83"
  • grub-install fails with error message "The file /boot/grub/stage1 not read correctly".

Environment

  • RHEL 6

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