ppc64le: ReaR ISO fails to boot, kernel panics

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • When booting the ReaR ISO on PPC64le, the kernel panics after printing the following messages

    [    0.164193] List of all partitions:
    [    0.164195] No filesystem could mount root, tried: 
    [    0.164195] 
    [    0.164198] Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)
    [...]
    

    Note above the line List of all partitions: which reports no partition was found at all.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 and later
    • ppc64le
    • ReaR

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