Don't start dmeventd till later. Look at a recent version of Fedora to see how to do it. Add the --sysinit option for initial activation. After pivotroot and when the filesystems are all up, then use --monitor y. Alasdair _______________________________________________ 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/