Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 & 8 VM's cant boot on Microsoft Hyper-V 2016 platform

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • When using RHEL 7/8/9 as the guest operating system on a virtual machine (VM) running on a Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2016 host, the VM in some cases fails to boot and returns to the GRUB boot menu.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9
  • Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2016 hosts (bare metal system)
  • Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2016 Generation 2 VM
  • Microsoft Azure Generation 2 VMs (partially)

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