Why does my GCP (Google Cloud Platform) RHEL image boot into a dracut shell?

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Issue

  • When using GCP and utilizing the BYOL (bring your own license) model the system boots into a dracut shell and no disks are found. The issue does not occur when using an image provided by Google.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

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