Unable to boot the system after configuring HA-LVM setup
Issue
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After configuring HA-LVM setup on cluster nodes using tagging variant as per the steps described in solution 3067 cluster node is unable to boot successfully and shows following kernel panic error messages on console:
on RHEL 6 cluster nodes:
Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempting to kill init! Pid; 1, comm: init Not tainted 2.6.32.279.14.1.el6.x86_64 #1 Call Trace: [<ffffffff814fd98a>] ? panic+0xa0/0x168 [<ffffffff81070c42>] ? do_exit+0x862/0x870 [<ffffffff8117d0a5>] ? fput+0x25/0x30 [<ffffffff81070ca8>] ? do_group_exit+0x58/0xd0 [<ffffffff81070d37>] ? sys_exit_group+0x17/0x20 [<ffffffff8100b0f2>] ? system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1bon RHEL 5 cluster nodes:
Unable to access resume device (/dev/VolGroup00/swap) 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 - no syncing: attempted to kill init!
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6 (with High Availability Add-On)
- HA-LVM (using tagging variant)
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