Installation of grub fails on a multipathed device

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

We are encountering issues when trying to install grub on a multipath device named system:

# grub-install /dev/mapper/system
The file /boot/grub/stage1 not read correctly.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.7
  • grub

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