System hangs after reboot.

Solution Verified - Updated -

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5
  • VMware guest

Issue

  • Server does not come up after a reboot when deployed from our template.
  • The issue seems to occur when there are files in a particular directory.

Resolution

Diagnostic Steps

  • The kickstart file generated from building the VM showed that the bootloader was installed to a partition, instead of the mbr:
$ grep bootloader root/anaconda-ks.cfg 
bootloader --location=partition --driveorder=sda --append=" rhgb crashkernel=auto quiet"

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