System fails to boot in Grub with multipath with different errors (mod not found , uncompression error, ELF magic ...)
Issue
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On a system with boot intalled on a multipath device, the system fails to boot with errors like:
error: invalid arch-independant ELF magic. Press any key to continue... Probing EDD (edd=off to disable)... ok uncompression erroror
error: file '/grub2/i386-pc/bo?[^_]?U????V??St!???@H.mod' not found Entering rescue mode... grub rescue>or any other grub module not found.
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Some messages can also be seen on the booted system kernel in rescue:
kernel: scsi host1: hdr status = FCPIO_DATA_CNT_MISMATCH
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7+
- multipath
- grub2
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