I reasonably recently installed openSUSE Factory on a test VM - I believe a little bit before "Milestone 1". The system was running fine, and I decided to update to the latest. Did a 'zypper dup', and then rebooted. However, the system would then not boot. The first obvious error is: mkdir: cannot create directory `/dev/mapper`: File exists Following this are: udevd-event[271]: device node '/dev/mapper/control' already exists, link to '/dev/device-mapper' will not overwrite it Boot logging started on /dev/char/../tty1(/dev/console) at Wed May 20 16:39:41 2000 resume device /dev/system/swap not found (ignoring) Waiting for decide /dev/system/root to appear: ...................................Could not find /dev/system/root. So, it's failing to find the LVs...but what can I do to restore booting of this system? I've booted in a live CD, and all the data seems to be there, but can't quite figure what I might be able to do. Considered running mkinitrd or something like that, but can't seem to get into the right environment to run that successfully. Can anyone help? John. -- John Beranek To generalise is to be an idiot. http://redux.org.uk/ -- William Blake