On 02/27/2011 04:26 PM, Hanspeter Kunz wrote: > ok, let me restate the issue, it is actually quite simple: > > During boot, after multipath assembled its devices, I see > the /dev/mapper multipath devices (which is fine) but > the /dev/disk/by-uuid symlinks point to one of the underlying iscsi > devices. Therefore, I cannot not boot using root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/... > because this leads to an error (as the device is already used by > multipath). > > when I boot the same system using root=/dev/mapper/... it works. > > after booting, when the system is up, the /dev/disk/by-uuid symlinks > point to the multipath devices (an not anymore to the iscsi devices > directly), which is how it should be. > > so the only thing that is missing is that these symlinks are created > correctly during boot. >
Okay!! I'll look into it soon as time permits. In case you get a root cause, please do share. -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf | http://people.debian.org/~rrs Debian - The Universal Operating System
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