>this means either your initrd is corrupted, or you did not rerun lilo >after createing the initrd. Yup.. I forgot to run /sbin/lilo but it doesn't take. The first error is failed to create /dev/mapper/control and after that everything fails and it ends up in a kernel panic. _______________________________________________ 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/