System fails to boot with error 'No root device found' ?

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Issue

  • After change Volume Group name, and restart the computer, the server do not boot, And it shows the following error:
No root device found

Boot has failed, sleeping forever.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

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