Reboot after kernel upgrade led to a crash boot on SAN

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Issue

  • After a kernel upgrade from '2.6.18-194.el5.x86_64' to '2.6.18-194.11.4.el5.x86_64', the reboot into the new kernel led to a kernel panic with the message

    Unable to access resume device (/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01)
    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
    Kernel panic -- not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
    
  • Booting into the earlier kernel (2.6.18-194.el5.x86_64) did not have any issue.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

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