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Solving an infinite loop in CentOS after inducing a Kernel Panic in a Server

This trick may be useful for you.
Almost surely if you power cycle, completely powering down your Server you’ll fix booting too.
Unfortunately we do not always have access to the Data Center or Remote Hands service available, so this trick may be useful for you.

Just reset your BMC card with this:

ipmitool -H 172.30.30.7 -U admin -P thepassword bmc reset cold

After this use the remote control tool to request a reboot and it will do and power on normally.

This may not work in all the Servers, it depends on a lot of aspects (firmware, bmc manufacturer, etc…) but can do the trick for you maybe.