"dracut Warning: LVM rootvg/lv_root not found" following Kernel upgrade in RHEL6

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

Server panics after upgrade from RHEL 6.1 to 6.2 with the following lead up messages:

dracut Warning: LVM rootvg/lv_root not found
dracut Warning: Boot has failed. To debug this message add "rdshell" to the command line
Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
Call trace:
[<ffffffff814ec2ba>] ? panic+0x78/0x143
[<ffffffff8106ed72>] ? do_exit+0x852/0x860
[<ffffffff81177e65>] ? fput_0x25/0x30 
[<ffffffff8106edd8>] ? do_group_exit+0x58/0xd0
[<ffffffff8106ee67>] ? sys_exit_group+0x17/0x20
[<ffffffff8100b0f2>] ? system_call_fastpath_0x16/0x1b

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • EMCpower.LINUX-5.6.0.00.00-143.x86_64

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