RHEL : Unable to boot receiving error "device appeared twice with different sysfs paths"

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Issue

  • Unable to boot into RHEL server. Receiving the below error during boot , unable to mount /boot filesystem.

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  • Using device names instead of UUID in /etc/fstab file.

  • Device names are not consistent across reboots.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server ver 7

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