Why host fails to boot when converged NIC has FCoE enabled in RHEL 6.4 ?

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Server doesn't boot when its converged NIC has FCoE enabled.

  • It always gets stuck at early stage of the boot process with the messages Kernel panic.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.4

  • CNA card.

  • FCoE

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