hi guys, this is my third install of FCR4 final in two days, (third machine, a dell latitude X300, more than a year old so not exactly brand new chipset etc...) the install went fine, no issues at all using the same cd's as i used on the other boxes. However after booting into grub, i get a kernel panic the errors appear like this Uncompressing Linux... ok, booting the kernel. Red Hat nash version 4.2.15 starting reading all physical volumes. this may take a while... No volume groups found. Unable to find volume group "VolGroup00" Error: /bin/lvm exited abnormally with value 5 ! (pid 418) and goes on ending with a kernel panic. so, in disbelief i booted from cd1, and did linux rescue, that goes fine until finally it tells me it cant find any linux partitions, so i cannot go in and look at grub or anything. does anyone have any ideas about this ? is it a known bug ? the only reference i found to it (similar issue) was here https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2005-April/msg02208.html i'd appreciate your thoughts, cheers anyweb http://www.linux-noob.com forums, tips, news, reviews and stuff :-)