Adding additional disk(s) to a VM in VMWare makes the VM unbootable showing the error: Operating System not found

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Issue

  • When one or more disk(s) is added to a virtual machine in VMWare, the virtual machine fails to boot when rebooted and gives the error: "Operating System not found".

Environment

  • VMWare
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)

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