But, the other drive is a scsi controller- and lilo does the right thing- and surely it isn't confusing 'root = /dev/rd/c0d0p1' with '/dev/md1'... Anyway, it seems to do the right thing *if* I have an fstab entry, *or* I force it with "raid=noautomount" from lilo.conf. -Tom - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html