Re: [Xen-users] XCP Booting from SAN

[Thomas Pöhler <tp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You could also try to login the target only once to temporarily "disable" 
multipathing and see if its booting fine. 

Am 12.07.2011 um 22:22 schrieb "John Madden" <jmadden@xxxxxxxxxxx>:

>> One last clarification. The servers still boot, they just take 30
>> minutes to do so. While they are trying to boot tons of /dev/sd* errors
>> scroll by on the screen. After the machine finishes booting the I/O
>> errors appear to stop.
> 
> What model SAN is it?  I've seen this before and the fix is to install the 
> proper multipath driver (appropriate to your SAN) into your initrd.  The i/o 
> errors are coming from the inactive path on an active/passive array.  For 
> example, with our IBM DS-4800 array, we had to add the scsi_dh_rdac driver to 
> the initrd so it was available to the multipath stuff that was happening at 
> boot.
> 
> John
> 
> 
> 
> 
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> Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana
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