VMware RHEL guest fails to boot with kernel panic
Issue
- RHEL Guest crashes with error
RAMDISK: incomplete write (31522 != 32768)
write error
Kernel panic - not syncing : VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)
- Receives below error on boot

Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6.x
- VMware Guest
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