Hi Just for the books: After help from John Coffman and Bernd Fischer my Raid1 / Raid5 is now up and running. This is what I had to do. 1. Install Lilo 22.6 2. mdadm -a /dev/md0 /dev/sda1 3. mount /dev/md1 /mnt/newroot 4. mount /dev/md0 /mnt/newroot/boot 5. Edit lilo.conf so boot = /dev/md0 6. Lilo -x mbr (Thanks John!!) Paff! also see: http://www.ywesee.com/index.cgi?Software_Raid Thanks for all the help. Zeno - 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