Hello All , Replying to my own message here . Upgrading to lilo-22.2 seems to have cured the difficulty . I probably could have upgraded to 21.8 or so & the problem would have been removed . Twyl , JimL On Sat, 23 Mar 2002, Mr. James W. Laferriere wrote: > Hello All , Having a bit o' trouble here . > I am attempting to create a raid1 & bootable system . > I am finding that lilo keeps looking at /dev/sda for the boot > sector and never /dev/sdb . And also the 'fatal: ...' error > mentioned in the subject . Tia , JimL > lilo command & lilo.conf & partition info & mdadm output below . +------------------------------------------------------------------+ | James W. Laferriere | System Techniques | Give me VMS | | Network Engineer | P.O. Box 854 | Give me Linux | | babydr@baby-dragons.com | Coudersport PA 16915 | only on AXP | +------------------------------------------------------------------+ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html