Boot a RHEL7 system from external storage with one path to the LUN and having the name `/dev/mapper/mpathX` in the OS.
Issue
- Boot a RHEL7 system from external storage with one path to the LUN and having the name
/dev/mapper/mpathX
in the OS. - When a RHEl7 system is booted from SAN with one path to the LUN, then the device is detected as
/dev/sdX
and not/dev/mapper/mpathX
. We want the name as/dev/mapper/mpathX
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- Boot from SAN
- DM-Multipath
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