<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 5.50.4926.2500" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV> <DIV>Hi all Having problems booting RH8, after creating a logical volume. Bootup goes normally till it gets to displaying message = dropping you to a shell command. The system already had working lv's, that were visible with df -h. They remained mounted after rebooting. Appropriate entries for them were found in /etc/fstab. Below is what was attempted: 1. LV created & formatted with mke2fs -j /dev/vg1/varlv 2. Mounted: mount /dev/vg1/varlv /var 3. Checked: df -h. Seen to be mounted. 4. After reboot, did, df -h Not mounted now. 5. edited /etc/fstab to include the line for /dev/vg1/varlv: /dev/vg1/varlv /var ext3 defaults 1 2 6. Rebooted: Got to the point in bootup where message = dropping you to a shell command. 7. Typed root password and hit enter. 8. Repeated message: Init d:x respawning too fast, disabling for 5 mins. I can see the message=dropping you to a shell command appears in rc.sysinit. I understand that ext3 is handled by initrd ram disk. Help much appreciated thanks abs.</DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>