Multipath devices missing after kernel upgrade
Issue
- After upgrading the kernel, multipath devices are missing
# multipath -ll
#
- After upgrade /boot is no longer mounting
# ls -l /boot
total 0
# mount | grep boot
#
- After upgrade, boot is failing fsck at boot time and machine falls into maintenance mode
*** An error occurred during the file system check.
*** Dropping you to a shell; the system will reboot
*** when you leave the shell.
Give root password for maintenance
(or type Control-D to continue):
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
- Boot from SAN
- / on multipath device
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