VMware RHEL guest fails to boot with kernel panic

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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
    Kernel Panic error

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6.x
  • VMware Guest

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