> >> I was under the impression that I can't boot off raid-5, but if that ... > If you can load an initrd, you can boot off of anything. indeed, you may not even need initrd - I usually have a boot kernel with monolithic (non-modular) boot device support. the result is that as long as lilo/grub can reads a MB or so off some device, you can boot. regards, mark hahn. - 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