On May 12, 2009, at 12:32 PM, William L. Maltby wrote: > IMO, yes (maybe). When the Initial install is done, I think there is > some stuff that is needed in the initrd to find the disk so root can > be > mounted. I'm not sure which initrd file contains it, but I think it's > got to be there somewhere. There are some more considerations I had > forgotten. Thanks, this gave the the hint I needed. Looking at the original modprobe.conf file, there was no entry in it for the driver for the second SATA controller. So to recover I booted the install CD in "linux rescue" mode. Ran "chroot /mnt/sysimage" I added alias scsi_hostadapter1 sata_promise to /etc/modprobe.conf Changed to the /boot directory mv initrd-2.6.18-128.1.6.el5.img initrd-2.6.18-128.1.6.el5.old mkinitrd initrd-2.6.18-128.1.6.el5.img 2.6.18-128.1.6.el5 After that completed, I rebooted and the system came up clean--no fsck requested or any other oddities, system-config-lvm seems to be working fine. No mucking about in /etc/fstab was needed. --Chris