On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 21:05 +0100, niall brady wrote: > 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, I just installed Fedora Core4 and get exactly the same results!! I have a DELL Precision M70. I noticed that no one has replied to your post? Can anyone please help us? Thanks, Ernest > > cheers > > anyweb > http://www.linux-noob.com > forums, tips, news, reviews and stuff :-) >