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.