Hi, Last week, I found grub.conf had been hosed (deleted somehow), so this morning, using RIP linux, I re-wrote the grub.conf file so that it is the same as my laptop (both run rawhide). I did a reboot, but it came up a kernel panic as lvm was unable to sync. I've tried to mount /dev/hda2 using RIP linux, but it always comes back with the error that /dev/hda2 or /mnt/linux is in use. I've tried mounting it using gnoppix (also has lvm abilities), but get the same error. Any ideas on how to fix this problem? TTFN Paul