System not booting with error "dracut: FATAL: Don't know how to handle 'rooot=/'"

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Issue

  • System not booting with error following errors.
dracut: FATAL: Don't know how to handle 'rooot=/'
dracut: refusing to continue
System halted

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

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