After installing mpp driver, RHEL5.3 kernel panic during booting

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Issue

After installing MPP drivers for multipathing and restarting, the system halted with kernel panic.

Red Hat nash version 5.1.19.6 starting
insmod: error inserting '/lib/qla2400.ko': -1 Unknown symbol in module
insmod: error inserting '/lib/scsi_mod.ko': -1 File exists
  Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while...
  Volume group "VolGroupBL4_00" not found
Unable to access resume device (/dev/VolGroupBL4_00/LogVolswp2)
mount: could not find filesystem '/dev/root'
setuproot: moving /dev failed: No such file or directory
setuproot: error mounting /proc: No such file or directory
setuproot: error mounting /sys: No such file or directory
switchroot: mount failed: No such file or directory-2a000
Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!

Similar servers with same version of kernel drivers are working fine.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • MPP multipath
  • 3rd party qla2xxx module

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