Upon reboot, the system halts with the error: 'Boot failed: Press a key to retry or wait for reset…'

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Issue

After rebooting, the system is stuck displaying the following message on the screen.

Network boot from VMware VMXNET3
Copyright (C) 2003-2021 Vmware, Inc.
Copyright (C) 1999 - 2000 Intel Corporation

PXELINUX 6.04 PXE Copyright (C)  1994-2015 H. .....
Unable to locate configuration files
Boot failed:   press a key to retry, or wait for reset...

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.x
  • Vmware

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