Error 17 : cannot mount selected partition

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Issue

Customer accidentally ran rpm -Uvh kernel instead of rpm -ivh kernel.

Now server failing to boot with the error below :

Error 17 : cannot mount selected partition

No any other changes has been made.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2
  • kernel-2.6.32-279.19.1.el6.x86_64.rpm

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