> Q1: Is it true that Linux can't/shouldn't boot off a RAID 5 array? LILO does not support booting off of RAID 5, and I don't think GRUB does either. I usually make a small RAID-1 partition to boot from (mirrored across all four drives), since LILO does handle that just fine. > geometry = 2498/255/63, sectors = 40132503, start = 0 .. > geometry = 39813/16/63, sectors = 40132503, start = 0 > Is this an issue with software RAID? No. -jim - 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