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