Sheeze, sorry about the html post. Here's a repost without the html bs. No, nor it is not defined on my working RH7 box. Is this a new requirement with RH9? Looking at the sysinit script, there has been some checking added which is looking at the fstab. If I comment this section of code out of sysinit the machine mounts the RAID md0 just fine. However I am also seeing an entry of "mount : LABEL=/boot duplicate not mounted: immediately following the activation of the RAID. Here is my fstab from my working RH7 box. The only real difference on my 9 box is that the ext2 filesystems are ext3. LABEL=/ / ext2 defaults 1 1 LABEL=/boot /boot ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,ro 0 0 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 /dev/hda6 swap swap defaults 0 0