From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Chandra Seetharaman Subject: Re: Installing RHEL with single controller Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 13:36:21 -0800 Message-ID: <1204234581.4963.89.camel@linuxchandra> References: <110b17190802281008u6e5eeef4vccfb509be7ad4198@mail.gmail.com> <20080228192135.GA13340@us.ibm.com> <110b17190802281136k7f303322y28f9952c82366a0c@mail.gmail.com> <20080228201122.GA13566@us.ibm.com> Reply-To: sekharan@us.ibm.com, device-mapper development Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20080228201122.GA13566@us.ibm.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: dm-devel-bounces@redhat.com Errors-To: dm-devel-bounces@redhat.com To: device-mapper development List-Id: dm-devel.ids On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 12:11 -0800, malahal@us.ibm.com wrote: > Pradipmaya Maharana [pradipmaya@gmail.com] wrote: > > Multipath is getting loaded, if that is what you are wondering about. > > After reboot I check for multipathd status, and smod for the modules > > loaded, everything looks fine. > > No, I am asking if initrd image contains multipath commands. You need to > use cpio to extract the initrd image and see the source code to check > it! > > multipath has to be loaded and *run* before mounting your real root. If > it gets loaded after mounting your real root, it is too late to have > multipath on root disk! Looks like you need to regenerate initrd with > multpath support. Yes, Malahal is right. You need to create initrd with multipath tools. You can do this by running mkinitrd with "--with=dm-multipath" (Follow the SLES10 installation instructions in my documentation http://sources.redhat.com/lvm2/wiki/MultipathUsageGuide ) > --Malahal. > > -- > dm-devel mailing list > dm-devel@redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Chandra Seetharaman | Be careful what you choose.... - sekharan@us.ibm.com | .......you may get it. ----------------------------------------------------------------------