RHEL 5 system with boot from multipath device is unable to boot with newly created initrd image

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Issue

  • 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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