quick one-liner to extract and view initrd
# mkdir /tmp/initrd && cd /tmp/initrd && cat /boot/`ls -lt /boot | grep initrd | head -1 | awk '{print $9}'` | gunzip | cpio -id && lsquick extract and view contents of initrd
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Monthly Archives: March 2015
ESXi boot device lost connectivity
Lost connectivity to the device backing the boot filesystem. As a result, host configuration changes will not be saved to persistent storage.
(slow NetApp filer failover caused lost connectivity to ESXi boot device which is a LUN connected with iSCSI)
# /etc/init.d/hostd restart && /etc/init.d/vpxa restart