RHEL 5 system with boot from multipath device is unable to boot with newly created initrd image
Issue
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The system is configured to boot from SAN, after recreating the initrd image system is unable to boot and shows following error messages on the console:
i8042.c: No controller found. Red Hat nash version 5.1.19.6 starting megasas: INIT adapter done Reading all Physical volumes. This may take a while... No volume groups found Volume group "rootvg" not found Volume group "swapvg" not found Unable to access resume device (/dev/mapper/swapvg-swapvol1) 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 directory00-93000 Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! -
This issue is observed only while booting the system with new initrd image, there is no issue observed while booting with older initrd
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 Update 6 or later
- mkinitrd version older than v5.1.19.6-75
- Boot from SAN
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