* Mads Peter Bach (mpb@hum.auc.dk) wrote : Hi, > A copy of the errormessages before "attempt to kill init" would be quite > helpful :-) I had to do another run on a different server so the results were slightly different from my memory, the results where the same: Ext3-fs: unable to read superblock mount: wrong fs type /dev2/root xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx cramfs: wrong magic mount: wrong fs type /dev2/root xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx warning: can't open mtab pivot_root: no such file or directory /sbin/init: 107: cannot open /dev/console no such file kernel panic: attempt to kill init! > Also, a copy of lilo's output when you install it might help. dev3:~$ mount -text3 /dev/md0 /mnt dev3:~$ lilo -r /mnt With boot and root set to /dev/md0. Output line was as you expect (e.g. installing to /dev/md0 etc. etc. said it installed ok) however this was the penultimate line: Unexpected dirty buffer encountered at do_get_write_access:613 (09:00 blocknr 0) Any help appreciated. Paul - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html