Hello Neil & All , I'll bet I am going to get harassed over this , but ... The present form (iirc) of the lilo append statement is append="md=d0,/dev/sda,/dev/sdb" I am wondering how difficult the below would be to code ? This allows a (relatively) short strings to be append'd instead of the sometimes large listing of devices . append="md=d0,UUID=e9e0f605:9ed694c2:3e2002c9:0415c080" Ok , I got my asbestos brithes on . Have at it ;-) . Tia , JimL -- +------------------------------------------------------------------+ | James W. Laferriere | System Techniques | Give me VMS | | Network Engineer | 3542 Broken Yoke Dr. | Give me Linux | | babydr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx | Billings , MT. 59105 | only on AXP | | http://www.asteriskhelpdesk.com/cgi-bin/astlance/r.cgi?babydr | +------------------------------------------------------------------+ - 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