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