Cloned VMWare VM (Oracle Linux) Failing to Boot. Boot Fails with Error: "Kernel Panic - Not Syncing: Attempted To Kill Init! Kernel Panic+0xa7/0x18b" (Doc ID 2682799.1)

Last updated on JUNE 22, 2020

Applies to:

Linux OS - Version Oracle Linux 6.10 and later
Linux x86-64

Oracle Linux 6.x VM running on VMWare failing to boot. VM hits kernel panic message below:

kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! kernel panic+0xa7/0x18b

The affected VM was cloned from another running VM

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