Hi, I'm still trying to boot a fresh installed 13.1 system. The initrd does not seem to be able to find my lvm root partition. I tried to repair from rescue system $ mount /dev/vg0/root /mnt $ mount /dev/sda1 /boot $ mount --bind /proc /mnt/proc $ mount --bind /dev /mnt/dev $ mount --bind /sys /mnt/sys $ chroot /mnt $ mkinitrd Kernel image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.11.10-7-desktop Initrd image: /boot/initrd-3.11.10-7-desktop KMS drivers: i915 Root device: /dev/vg0/root (mounted on / as ext4) /dev/mapper/control: mknod failed: No such file or directory Failure to communicate with kernel device-mapper driver. Check that device-mapper is available in the kernel. Command failed [...] Microcode: Adding Intel microcode 06-3c-03 Kernel Modules: thermal_sys thermal processor fan dm-mod dm-log dm-region-hash dm-mirror dm-snapshot scsi_dh scsi_dh_rdac scsi_dh_alua scsi_dh_emc scsi_dh_hp_sw video button i2c-algo-bit drm drm_kms_helper i915 xhci-hcd hid-logitech-dj hid-holtek-kbd hid-lenovo-tpkbd hid-ortek hid-roccat hid-roccat-common hid-roccat-arvo hid-roccat-isku hid-samsung ohci-pci Features: acpi dm intel_microcode kms plymouth usb resume.userspace resume.kernel I've tracked it down. It's "dmsetup info" which failes How cat I let the device-mapper work in rescue system or how else could I create a working initrd cu, Rudi -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org