Installation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 on SAN was successful but its not booting after rebooting.

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Installation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.7 was carried on "Cisco UCS blades with SAN boot volumes" using an existing kickstart environment.
  • The installation appeared to complete without issue, but after rebooting the machine goes through POST but then sits with a blinking cursor and gives no error.
  • What can be the issue?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5/6
  • Installation over SAN

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