Just to confirm, I've reinstalled 4.1 from scratch, and the machines both seem to run just fine, but the problem is, I use YUM to update my machines, so now I am also worried about other machines that might be affected by this strange update issue. -- Best regards, Mickael mailto:centos at silverservers.com Monday, November 28, 2005, 2:26:38 PM, you wrote: > Hello CentOS, > I've just taken 2 old servers running CentOS 3.x, wiped it out, and > installed CentOS 4.1 > The systems seemed to work fine with CentOS 4.1, but when I proceeded > to run yum -y update, all the RPM's (101) download and seem to install > fine - however, upon reboot, partitions such as /usr/ and /var will > not mount (ext3). These machines both use the Intel S875WP1 P4 > Mainboards. Both use SATA Drives. One uses the promise controller > (which on install seems to find a suitable driver). > Anyway, I've also tried installing directly from the CentOS 4.2 Server > CD, same issue. Install goes fine, but bootup won't mount /var > Any idea what this is all about?