Boot from iSCSI target is unable to mount network filesystems at boot after initial install

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • LVM volumes which use iSCSI backing devices do not auto mount after initial reboot after installation
    • filesystems will mount with mount -a after the system comes up
    • NetworkManager is not used
/dev/mapper/vg_root-lv_root /                                      ext4    defaults,_rnetdev 1 1
UUID=80e92d42-7a79-4281-b58d-9fdaab500de4 /boot  ext4    defaults,_netdev 1 2
/dev/mapper/vg_root-lv_home /home                           ext4    defaults,_netdev 1 2
/dev/mapper/vg_root-lv_tmp  /tmp                               ext4    defaults,_netdev 1 2
/dev/mapper/vg_root-lv_usr  /usr                                 ext4    defaults,_netdev 1 2
/dev/mapper/vg_root-lv_var  /var                                  ext4    defaults,_netdev 1 2
/dev/mapper/vg_root-lv_swap swap                             swap   defaults,_netdev 1 2
tmpfs                       /dev/shm                                  tmpfs   defaults        0 05,mode=620  0 0
sysfs                       /sys                                         sysfs   defaults        0 0
procfs                      /proc                                        proc    defaults        0 0

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.5
  • iscsi-initiator-utils
  • Boot iSCSI target

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