> > I read the Bugzillas but I didn't see anything about progress stalling > > with the maintainer of rpmlib... is there more to the story? My original mail about not booting didn't have anything to do with rpms. It turned out to be a problem with a Windows XP RAID on other disks on the same machine. I didn't want to mount them, I didn't tell anaconda to do anything with them when installing, but it insisted on setting up all kinds of dmraid nonsense in the initrd to try and access them anyway, then a raid bug came along and made everything hang during initrd processing. I eventually got it to work by customizing the initrd scripts to stop trying to setup the raid I didn't want to see anyway :-).