On 4/18/06, Nauman Yousuf <nauman.yousuf@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > /sbin/mdadm /dev/md0 --add ${DRIVE}6 > /sbin/mdadm /dev/md1 --add ${DRIVE}2 > /sbin/mdadm /dev/md2 --add ${DRIVE}8 > /sbin/mdadm /dev/md3 --add ${DRIVE}5 > /sbin/mdadm /dev/md4 --add ${DRIVE}3 > /sbin/mdadm /dev/md5 --add ${DRIVE}7 > /sbin/mdadm /dev/md6 --add ${DRIVE}1 Why are you adding them backwards? > grub> root (hd0.0) It's a ',' not '.' Is this your boot partition if you are setting it up as md6? regards, dan carpenter