I haven't had a kernel boot in awhile on my amd64 box. my x86 box's are fine. Here is the kernel panic I get: (or atleast the last part of the screen output, i can't go up to look at more) Keep in mind, /dev/hda is a dvd drive, the 2 harddrives in this box are SATA's on /dev/sda and /dev/sdb Buffer I/O error on device hda, logical block 9 /dev/hda: read failed after 0 of 2048 at 0: Input/output error /dev/hda: read failed after 0 of 2048 at 573177856: Input/output error /dev/hda: read failed after 0 of 2048 at 0: Input/output error No volume groups found Activating logical volumes /dev/hda: read failed after 0 of 2048 at 0: Input/output error /dev/hda: read failed after 0 of 2048 at 0: Input/output error /dev/hda: read failed after 0 of 2048 at 573177856: Input/output error /dev/hda: read failed after 0 of 2048 at 0: Input/output error Unable to find volume group "VolGroup00" ERROR: /bin/lvm exited abnormaly with value 5 ! (pid 432) Creating root device. Mounting root filesystem mount: error 6 mounting ext3 Switching to new root ERROR opening /dev/console!!!!: 2 error dup2'ing fd of 0 to 0 error dup2'ing fd of 0 to 1 error dup2'ing fd of 0 to 2 unmounting old /proc unmounting old /sys switchroot: mount failed: 22 Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!