OK, I have found a very reproducible issue on my system. Don't know for sure if it is a Grub issue or Kernel. I believe that it is Grub because I have four Kernels on my system and all produce the same response now. Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel. audit(1114645171.238:0):initialized Red Hat nash version 4.2.8 starting ERROR: /sbin/udevstart exited abnormally! (pid 417) ata2: disabling port ERROR: /sbin/udevstart exited abnormally! (pid 481) Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while... No volume groups found Unable to find volume group "VolGroup00" ERROR: /bin/lvm exited abnormally! (pid 483) mount: error 6 mounting ext3 ERROR opening /dev/console!!!!: 2 error dup2'ing fd of 0 to 0 error dup2'ing fd of 0 to 1 error dup2'ing fd of 0 to 2 unmounting old /proc unmounting old /sys switchroot: mount failed: 22 Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! What is the opinion of this forum? Thanx, Don