System ends up to kernel panic on boot

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

The system ends up to kernel panic on boot with the following message:

Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
Pid: 1, comm: init Not tained 2.6.18-XXXXXXX #1
Call Trace:
 [<XXXXXXXXXXX>] ? panic+0xa7/0x16f
 [<XXXXXXXXXXX>] ? do_exit+0x862/0x870
 [<XXXXXXXXXXX>] ? fput+0x25/0x30
 [<XXXXXXXXXXX>] ? do_group_exit+0x58/0xd0
 [<XXXXXXXXXXX>] ? sys_exit_group+0x17/0x20
 [<XXXXXXXXXXX>] ? system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

Environment

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

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