Failed to start sqlservr serivce on RHEL with unable to read instance id

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • mssql-server service failed to start with the message unable to read instance id

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • Microsoft SQL Server 2017

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