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OCI: Oracle Linux Instance Boot Failed with Error "Warning: /dev/mapper/ocivolume-root does not exis

in Linux

APPLIES TO:

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Linux x86-64

SYMPTOMS

Oracle Linux 8 Instance hosted in OCI fails to boot with error and landing to dracut shell

Warning: /dev/mapper/ocivolume-root does not exist

Warning: /dev/ocivolume does not exist

Warning: /dev/ocivolume/root does not exist

dracut:/#

CHANGES

Issue started after running below command following a file system activity to copy the data to another instance, which changed the default volume group name of root file system from ocivolume to ocivolume1

#vgimportclone /dev/sdb3

CAUSE

Volume group name has been changed from default ocivolume to ocivolume1 following a file system activity to copy the data to another instance

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