System does not boot after mkinitrd in SAN Boot from EMC PowerPath
Issue
- System does not boot with the following message after mkinitrd.
Red Hat nash version 5.1.19.6. starting
Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while...
No volume groups found
Volume group "VolGroup0004" not found
Volume group "VolGroup01" not found
Unable to access resume device (/dev/VolGroup01/LogVol00)
mount: could not find filesystem '/dev/root'
setuproot: moving /dev failed: No such file or directory
setuproot: error mountint /proc: No such file or directory
setuproot: error mounting /sys: No such file or directory
switchroot: mount failed: No such file or directory
Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
Kernel alive
Kernel direct mapping tables up to 630000000 @ 10000-2a000
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
- EMC PowerPath
- SAN Boot
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