> > > Since I'm still happily running CentOS 4.3, I should probably keep my > thoughts > to myself, but that immediate kernel panic sure is a reminder of > attempting to boot > an i686 kernel with an i586 processor. I'd try to duplicate the > reported symptom > but my AMD K6-2 box has become an "organ transplant" donor > strictly because of kernel requirements. > It's a Tyan GS14 Celeron D 2.53GHz My console output reads (in-part) ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x30D0 ctl 0x30C6 bmdma 0x3090 irq 10 ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x30C8 ctl 0x30C2 bmdma 0x3098 irq 10 ata1: dev 0 ATA-7, max UDMA/133, 234441648 sectors: LBA48 ata1: qc timeout (cmd 0xef) ata1: failed to set xfermode (err_mask=0x4) scsi0 : ata_piix ata2: SATA port has no device. scsi1 : ata_piix Loading dm-mod.ko module device-mapper: 4.5.0-ioctl (2005-10-04) initialised: dm-devel at redhat.com Loading jbd.ko module Loading ext3.ko module Loading dm-mirror.ko module Loading dm-zero.ko module Loading dm-snapshot.ko module Making device-mapper control node Scanning logical volumes RKernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! eading all physi cal volumes. This may take a while... No volume groups found Activating logical volumes Volume group "VolGroup00" not found ERROR: /bin/lvm exited abnormally! (pid 318) Gerald