Booting RHEL fails with "Error 13: Invalid or unsupported executable format"

Solution Verified - Updated 2024-08-06T07:10:32+00:00 -

Issue

Booting fails after an unexpected power outage with the following error message
```
Error 13: Invalid or unsupported executable format
```
This happens just after grub starts loading the kernel
After successfully installing RHEL 6.2 64-bit on physical server, and rebooting the server, the OS failed to come up. I got the following error:
```
Error 13 invalid unsupported executable format
Press any key to continue
```

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 & 6
GRUB (GRand Unified Bootloader)

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