hi guys,

this is my third install of FCR4 final in two days, (third machine, a dell latitude X300, more than a year old so not exactly brand new chipset etc...)

the install went fine, no issues at all using the same cd's as i used on the other boxes. However after booting into grub, i get a kernel panic

the errors appear like this

Uncompressing Linux... ok, booting the kernel.
Red Hat nash version 4.2.15 starting
reading all physical volumes. this may take a while...
No volume groups found.
Unable to find volume group "VolGroup00"
Error: /bin/lvm exited abnormally with value 5 ! (pid 418)

and goes on ending with a kernel panic.

so, in disbelief i booted from cd1, and did linux rescue,

that goes fine until finally it tells me it cant find any linux partitions, so i cannot go in and look at grub or anything.

does anyone have any ideas about this ? is it a known bug ? the only reference i found to it (similar issue) was here https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2005-April/msg02208.html

i'd appreciate your thoughts,

cheers

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