What is the meaning of "Status: System watchdog timer expired" message in 'dmidecode' output?

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Issue

  • Performed 'dmidecode' and noticed the following message in the output:
Handle 0x00C1, DMI type 32, 11 bytes
System Boot Information
        Status: System watchdog timer expired

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux

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