http://ubuntuforums.org – Hi there, on boot I can see the error message on 12.04 64bit, with drops into initramfs shell. Code: ALERT! /dev/mapper/server-root does not exist. Dropping to a shell If I do a restart here, the system boots as expected. dmesg shows me then on the booted server: Code: .. [ 1.052576] EXT4-fs (dm-1): INFO: recovery required on readonly filesystem [ 1.053052] EXT4-fs (dm-1): write access will be enabled during recovery [ 1.124048] Refined TSC clocksource calibration: 2533.331 MHz. [ 2.074898] EXT4-fs (dm-1): recovery com (Hardware)