Boot from SAN system facing issues in boot process and shows error - 'Kernel Panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init'

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Issue

  • The boot from SAN system is facing issues in boot process and shows error - Kernel Panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init

    No 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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