Friday, 1 July 2016

Fix for RAMDISK: incomplete write

While patching a virtual machine from RHEL 6.3 to 6.5 the server refused to boot up after reboot & the following error was being displayed:


RAMDISK: incomplete write (26171 !=32768)
write error
Kernel panic - not syncing VFS


The fix for this was to re-install vmware tools & re-create initramfs with the following command:

/sbin/dracut --force /boot/initramfs-2.6.32-431.17.1.el6.x86_64.img 2.6.32-431.17.1.el6.x86_64

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