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From: malahal@us.ibm.com
Subject: Re: Configuring multipath for root device
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 12:28:53 -0800
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Pradipmaya Maharana [pradipmaya@gmail.com] wrote:
> RHEL Steps worked perfectly for me but i have a question for SLES installation.
> 
> Question. While installing SLES on multipath devices, the second step says:
> 
> " 2. Complete the installation. Let the system boot up in multiuser mode.
> Make sure the root device, swap device are all referenced by their by-id
> device node entries instead of /dev/sd* type names. If they are not, fix
> them first."
> 
> How do you check that root device and swap device are referenced by their by-id?
> And if it is not referenced by the by-id, how do I fix it? Re-install?

Look at your grub.conf and see what is there for root and also look at
/etc/fstab and make sure everything there is also ID based.

Malahal.