[FCoE] Boot from SAN system fails to boot after kernel update

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Issue

  • System unable to find fcoe SAN boot disk and not booting with new kernel.
  • The system is configured to boot from SAN disks via Broadcom internal FCoE CNA cards, but after kernel update system fails to boot and shows following error messages on console:

    dracut Warning: LVM vg_root/lv_root not found
    dracut Warning: LVM vg_root/lv_swap not found
    
    dracut Warning: Boot has failed. To debug this issue add "rdshell" to the kernel command line.
    
    dracut Warning: Signal caught!
    dracut Warning: LVM vg_root/lv_root not found
    dracut Warning: LVM vg_root/lv_swap not found
    
    dracut Warning: Boot has failed. To debug this issue add "rdshell" to the kernel command line.
    Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
    Pid: 1, comm: init Not tainted 2.6.32-504.12.2.el6.x86_64 #1
    Call Trace:
      [<ffffffff8152933c>] ? panic+0xa7/0x16f
      [<ffffffff8107a5f2>] ? do_exit+0x862/0x870
      [<ffffffff8118fa25>] ? fput+0x25/0x30
      [<ffffffff8107a658>] ? do_group_exit+0x58/0xd0
      [<ffffffff8107a6e7>] ? sys_exit_group+0x17/0x20
      [<ffffffff8100b072>] ? system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
    

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • Boot from FCoE SAN storage

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