ReaR recovery fail in a multipath system

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • When recovering a PPC64+multipath system, the following error message is seen when executing rear -v recover:

    Installing for powerpc-ieee1275 platform.
    ofpathname: Could not retrieve Open Firmware device path for logical device "/dev/mapper/mpathf".
    Installation finished. No error reported.
    2021-06-04 13:42:33.207523277 GRUB2 installed on /dev/mapper/mpathf1
    

Environment

  • RedHat Enterprise Linux 7
    • ReaR
    • Multipath disk

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