System drops to dracut shell after disabling dm-multipath.

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • System with SAN boot has two multipath software products(Dm-miltipath and Hitachi HDLM) installed, when dm-multipath is disabled, the system drops to dracut shell with the following errors:
Could not boot
warning: /dev/mapper/rhel00-root does not exist
warning: /dev/rhel00/root does not exist
warning: /dev/rhel00/swap does not exist

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (with SAN boot)
  • Dm-multipath
  • Hitachi HDLM
  • LVM2

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