Kernel panic while booting the RHEL-6 server.

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Kernel panic with following error messages:
Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
Pid: 1, comm: switch_root Not tainted 2.6.32-431.el6.x86_64 #1

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • glibc

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