Upgrade from rhel 6.10 to 7.6 fails - the kernel panics

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  1. After upgrade from RHEL 6.10 to RHEL 7.6 and it appears to complete successfully.

    1. Once upgrade complete, the system reboots automatically.
  2. Then kernel panics, because of missing entry for initramfs in grub

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • Upgrade process

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