Why does the system won't boot with fips enabled and boot on a separate partition?

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Why does the system won't boot with fips enabled and /boot on a separate partition?
FATAL: you must have to specify boot-<boot devices> as a boot option for fips 1

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

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