system hangs at first boot after deployment, last visible message: "dracut: Mounted root filesystem /dev/sda1"

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • system hangs at first boot after deployment, last output on console:

    EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
    dracut: Mounted root filesystem /dev/sda1
    

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 deployment
  • linux deployment infrastructure already in use for RHEL5 deployments, including kernel options

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