Boot failing with the error - RAMDISK: incomplete write (xxxx != yyyyy)

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • System is not booting up with the below error messages.
RAMDISK: incomplete write (4740 != 16377)
write error
kernel panic-not syncing: VFS: unable to mount root fs on unknown block(0,0)
swapper not tainted

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux

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