> Umm, I maybe writing on complitely different setup (can't check the > original post), but our server with software raid 5 (3 disks) is booting > with lilo just fine. README.raid from lilo-22.5.9 (the latest version) states: "Only RAID1 is supported. LILO may be used to boot a system containing other RAID level partitions, but it may not be installed on any RAID partition other than RAID level 1." so I don't believe you. You may be confusing "booting off RAID-5" with "having a RAID-5 root". -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