When rebooting the system the system hangs and just displays a flashing . (period)

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Issue

  • When rebooting the system the system hangs and just displays a flashing . (period) You never see the grub prompt or a kernel panic.
  • How do I verify that I have a valid MBR installed to a particular disk?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

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