On Mon, 20 Aug 2007 12:00:46 +0300 Jari Ruusu <jariruusu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > y=`expr ${y} + 100` Jari, this is what happens when booting: 1 machine loads kernel 2 password requested and loopback is setup 3 then there is the following error "Unable to make device node for 'vg-root' /dev/vg: mkdir failed : No space left on device" And boot ends with a system halt. This is when y=`expr ${y} + 500`. When y=`expr ${y} + 2` or y=`expr ${y} + 100` the following error is returned on boot: "/etc/lvm: mkdir failed: No space left on device" Ah! Regards Fog_Watch. grub.conf= default 0 timeout 5 splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.14-hardened-r8 root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.14-hardened-r8 root=100 lvm2root=/dev/vg/root init=/linuxrc rw rootfstype=minix initrd /initrd.gz build_init.sh= Note that these lines required high levels of guessing. Lines after ≅ 564 buf[0] = 0; strCat(buf, "/lib/lvm vgscan --ignorelockingfailure"); exeWait(buf); buf[0] = 0; strCat(buf, "/lib/lvm vgchange -ay --ignorelockingfailure "); exeWait(buf); -- Lose wait. Get Gentoo. - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/