ESX Host not booting properly

The problem was related to an abrupt reboot of the ESX host. This then caused the /boot partition to become corrupt.


I ran the following commands in ESX maintenance mode to fix /boot:

esxcfg-boot -p (reloads the PCI data)

esxcfg-boot -b (sets up boot information) esxcfg-boot -r (refreshes initrd)

Rebbot the server to normal mode.