To follow up this thread, thanks to Jim's tip, I found a bugzilla report (marked WONTFIX, since reiser is unsupported). https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=155274 There's a work around to the reiserfs + grub problem. Boot into rescue, copy the vmlinuz and initrd files, delete the originals, then copy back to /boot. Richard