Being new to this list, I appreciate your patience in me getting this new fc1 install working. Looking at system logs I determined my system was suffering from a "gpm shutdown failed", I suspect that this might be causing the error in my last post of "md: recovery thread got woken up" because gpm is not shutting down successfully with the term signal the system must force a termination of the process by killing it. So all that being said what is gpm and what would cause this behavior? I look at red hat website and tried to cross reference it in bugzilla with no results. I also have had problems mounting my hard drive so is these events related in some way? In my logs this seemed to be the only error journaled. thanks for your help, I'm sure this issue has already been addressed so if you know the link to it please provide me with it. Thanks again MButterman __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search - Find what you?re looking for faster http://search.yahoo.com