hi everybody Dieter, here is what you asked me [root@localhost root]# ls -ltr /boot total 6138 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 21282 Sep 11 2003 message.ja -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 23108 Sep 11 2003 message -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1236945 Oct 4 2003 vmlinuz-2.4.21-4.EL -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 570887 Oct 4 2003 System.map-2.4.21-4.EL -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2900380 Oct 4 2003 vmlinux-2.4.21-4.EL -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 543 Jul 30 21:30 kernel.h -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 276990 Jul 30 21:30 initrd-2.4.21-4.EL.img drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Jul 30 21:43 grub lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Jul 30 21:43 System.map -> System.map-2.4.21-4.EL drwx------ 2 root root 12288 Jul 30 23:26 lost+found -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 48023 Aug 1 14:50 config-2.4.21-4.EL -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1154607 Aug 1 14:50 initrd-lvm-2.4.21-4.EL.gz Her is my grub directory [root@localhost root]# ls -ltr /boot/grub total 185 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11182 Sep 11 2003 splash.xpm.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 106364 Jul 30 21:43 stage2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 512 Jul 30 21:43 stage1 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root root 11 Jul 30 21:43 menu.lst -> ./grub.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 82 Jul 30 21:43 device.map -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9320 Jul 30 21:43 xfs_stage1_5 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6528 Jul 30 21:43 vstafs_stage1_5 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9408 Jul 30 21:43 reiserfs_stage1_5 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7040 Jul 30 21:43 minix_stage1_5 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8448 Jul 30 21:43 jfs_stage1_5 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6880 Jul 30 21:43 ffs_stage1_5 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7536 Jul 30 21:43 fat_stage1_5 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7840 Jul 30 21:43 e2fs_stage1_5 -rw------- 1 root root 679 Aug 1 14:40 grub.conf And here my configuration [root@localhost root]# cat /boot/grub/grub.conf # grub.conf generated by anaconda # # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file # NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that # all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg. # root (hd0,0) # kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/sda2 # initrd /initrd-version.img #boot=/dev/sda default=0 timeout=10 splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz title Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES (2.4.21-4.EL) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.21-4.EL ro root=LABEL=/ initrd /initrd-2.4.21-4.EL.img title Ramsis root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.21-4.EL ro root=/dev/vg00/root initrd /initrd-lvm-2.4.21-4.EL.gz And I mounted my new root ' mount /dev/vg00/root /mnt/ ' The new /etc/fstab contains : /dev/vg00/root / ext3 defaults 1 1 LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2 none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 /dev/sda3 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0 But i still think the problrm is coming from the instruction "lvmcreate_initrd" because if I do not use the "-D" flag, the instruction fail, and in the "LVM-HOWTO", it is used without that flag. If you have any suggestion :) thank you :) _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/