Boot from SAN system facing issues in boot process and shows error - 'Kernel Panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init'
Issue
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The boot from SAN system is facing issues in boot process and shows error -
Kernel Panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill initNo devices found Scanning and configuring dmraid supported devices Scanning logical volumes Reading all physical Volumes. This may take a while... No volume groups found Activating logical volumes Volume group "rootvg" not found Trying to resume from /dev/rootvg/swaplv01 Unable to access resume device (/dev/rootvg/swaplv01) Creating root device. Mounting root filesystem. mount: could not find filesystem '/dev/root' Setting up other filesystems. Setting up new root fs setuproot: moving /dev/ failed: No such file or directory no fstab.sys, mounting internal defaults setuproot: error mounting /proc: No such file or directory setuproot: error mounting /sys: No such file or directory Switching to new root and running init. unmounting old /dev unmounting old /proc unmounting old /sys switchroot: mount failed: No such file or directory Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.10
- Boot from SAN
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