Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 installation failed to add a boot entry duplicately for UEFI environment with multipath boot partition
Issue
- We are trying to install
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6
on the newUEFI
system. - This system is using boot from
SAN
technology so the boot disk is located on theLUN
on EMC storage. - There are two paths to the
LUN
:
mpatha (3600601600f3133xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) dm-0 DGC,VRAID
size=32G features='0' hwhandler='1 emc' wp=rw
|-+- policy='round-robin 0' prio=1 status=active
| `- 0:0:0:0 sda 8:0 active ready running
`-+- policy='round-robin 0' prio=0 status=enabled
`- 0:0:1:0 sdh 8:112 active ready running
- In the
program.log
we can see the anaconda installefibootmgr
successfully over thesda
path but when the same is done using the non-activesdh
path theefibootmgr
fails as it can't read the partition information from/dev/sdh
disk:
XX:XX:XX,488 INFO : Boot001C* Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
XX:XX:XX,489 INFO : Running... ['efibootmgr', '-c', '-w', '-L', 'Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6', '-d', '/dev/sdh', '-p', '1', '-l', '\\EFI\\redhat\\grub.efi']
XX:XX:XX,517 ERROR : ** Warning ** : Boot001C has same label Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
XX:XX:XX,517 ERROR : Error: no partition information on disk /dev/sdh.
XX:XX:XX,518 ERROR : Cowardly refusing to create a boot option.
- This problem did not occur on the sames systems with
legacy-mode
installation or when installing to local drive inUEFI
mode.
Environment
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
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