I got it working, thanks to all, especially to Luca. After verifying that my lilo configuration was sane, I tried making the initrd on another host. I was able to boot just fine. I was trying to do everything from the slackware 8.1 install cd, but the lvmcreate_initrd script doesnt want to work properly in that environment. Heres the setup: # lilo -V LILO version 22.2 # cat /etc/lilo.conf lba32 boot = /dev/sda delay = 50 vga = ext image = /boot/vmlinuz root = /dev/rootvg/root initrd = /boot/initrd-lvm-2.4.18-heh3.gz label = linux1 read-only # df Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/rootvg/root 2097084 719204 1377880 35% / /dev/rootvg/var 6254396 40824 6213572 1% /var # swapon -s Filename Type Size Used Priority /dev/rootvg/swap partition 524280 0 -1 # cat /proc/lvm/global LVM driver LVM version 1.0.1-rc4(ish)(03/10/2001) # fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1106 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 1106 8883913+ fd Linux raid autodetect Disk /dev/sdb: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1106 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 1 1106 8883913+ fd Linux raid autodetect # cat /etc/raidtab raiddev /dev/md0 raid-level 1 nr-raid-disks 2 nr-spare-disks 0 device /dev/sda1 raid-disk 0 device /dev/sdb1 raid-disk 1 # LVM rules. galt _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@sistina.com http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/