Hi, as far as I know it is possible to have the /boot and /root partition on a RAID 1 array. But is it also possible to copy it to a RAID 5 level array and than boot directly from it? Thx Gernot Weber -- Gernot A. Weber http://www.tux-web.de Only wimps use tape backup: _real_ men just upload their important stuff on ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it. Linus Torvalds, after a hard drive crash - 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