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Enabling and Starting Multipath I/O Services

To start multipath services and enable them to start at reboot:

  1. Open a terminal console, then log in as the root user or equivalent.

  2. At the terminal console prompt, enter

    chkconfig multipathd on

    chkconfig boot.multipath on

If the boot.multipath service does not start automatically on system boot, do the following:

  1. Open a terminal console, then log in as the root user or equivalent.

  2. Enter

    /etc/init.d/boot.multipath start

    /etc/init.d/multipathd start
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