hi, I have worked day/night in trying to resolve some issues: - the following is what I have copied manually from what I may read from screen: . . ata4: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300) pata_amd 0000:00:06.0: version 0.3.8 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:06.0 to 64 scsi4: pata_amd scsi5: pata_amd ata5: PATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x00000000000101f0 ctl 0x00000000000103f6 bmdma 0x00000000000130c0 irq 14 ata6: PATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x0000000000010170 ctl 0x0000000000010376 bmdma 0x00000000000130c8 irq 15 ata5.00: ATAPI: MATSHITADVD-RAM UJ-851S, 1.50, max MWDMA2 ata5.00: ATAPI: configured for MWDMA2 ata6: port disabled. ignoring. scsi 4:0:0:0: CD-ROM MATSHITADVD-RAM UJ-851S, 1.50 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 device-mapper: ioctl: 4.11.0-ioctl (2006-10-12) initialised: dm-devel@redhat.com Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while... No volume groups found Volume group "VolGroup00" not found Unable to access resume device (/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01) mount: could not find filesystem '/dev/root' setuproot: moving /dev failed: No such file or directory Setuproot: error mounting /proc: No such file or directory Setuproot: error mounting /sys: No such file or directory switchroot: mount failed: No such file or directory Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempting to kill init! --------------------------------- This is what I get rebooting the machine after a - x86_64 - install attempt. This was Fedora7.9-x86_64. Same thing happens with Fedora7-x86_64. Tried rescue - and all seems to be intact. So, what to do ?????? -------------------------------- Hardware: 2 x AMD Turion 64 It does run Fedora core 6 x86_64 - but turns insane after package updates over the net. Fedora7_i386 - it will run this, but receiving packages give the same results as told about above. It does run OpenSuse10.2 - x86_64 Left lspci hardware list, and more details a week ago on laptop-fedora-list@redhat.com, but it did seem like I was the only member ?? There is no help or support to be found, seems to be the case. //ARNE <hr size=1>Sick sense of humor? Visit Yahoo! TV's <a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=47093/*http://tv.yahoo.com/collections/222">Comedy with an Edge </a>to see what's on, when.