Description of problem: When booting I get dropped into singe user mode when init reads fstab to mount directories because the multipath entries in /dev don't exist. Once I enter the root password I can mount the directories because at that point the devices to exist. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): device-mapper-multipath-0.4.5-16.1.RHEL4 How reproducible: All the time Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info: To work around I added _netdev to the options in fstab
Which multipath entries are you using? /dev/dm-* names are not guaranteed to be unique across reboots and should never be used. They are also created by udev and not guaranteed to exist immediately after device creation. /dev/mpath/* names are unique, but are also created by udev and not guaranteed to exist immediately after device creation. They should not be used in things like /etc/fstab /dev/mapper/* names are created by device-mapper, and exist immediately after the device is created. If you are not using /dev/mapper/* names in /etc/fstab, try switching to them and let me know if this fixes the problem for you.
I was using /dev/dm-*. I can't reboot this system anytime soon just to test if the /dev/mapper entries work.
Please let me know if this fixed the problem.
I'm sorry, this system might not be rebooted for months.