have not found any mails in this list about dmraid... is it planned to put it into the fc4 initrd, to be able to boot from ie serial ata raid drives (a simple >>dmraid -ay<< at the right position of the boot script should be sufficient. maybe some sata_XXX and dmraidXXX modules have to be loaded before ...)? maybe it is already there -- have not yet found time to test fc4-testX ... rds, niki -- niki w. waibel - system administrator @ newlogic technologies ag