Haven't had a chance to raise it yet (having to use the environment for
something else atm so I wouldn't be able to capture logs), though plan
to do it next week once the environment is free.
Some thoughts around potential workarounds/fixes:
- Boot option (similar to rootwait/rootdelay) to impose
Mathieu,
As noted in LP:1538775, version 0.4.9-3ubuntu7.8 still isn't resolving
the issue for me, as while my system does start (im not dropping to a
rescue shell), the multipath daemon seems to be executed prior to the
disks being discovered/udev starting and so it boots using sda for root
Brian,
Package tested (0.4.9-3ubuntu7.8) and can confirm that it does resolve
the problem around loading the missing module. It doesn't however fix
the issue of the multipath root device working (as my system is back to
sda rather than mpath). As per Matthiew's comment (4) I will update
Just to be clear, it isn't the error message that is a problem when
attempting to boot, its that the system will not boot with multipath
support because the multipath discovery in the initrd is performed
before the SCSI devices are available. Removing the current code
referring to the removed
Public bug reported:
Release: Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS
Kernel: linux-image-3.16.0-59-generic
A clean system installed fresh today (2016-01-27)
In attempting to configure a system to boot-from-SAN and enable
multipath support I ran into an issue whereby despite the multiple paths
being detected (when
