Red Hat Enterprise Linux is not booting after selecting kernel from grub menu with message "error cannot allocate kernel buffer error you need to load the kernel first"
Issue
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux gives an error as below after selecting the
kernel
fromgrub
menu to boot.
error: cannot allocate kernel buffer
error: you need to load the kernel first
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
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