On 7/16/05, Kevin Lombardo <kevin.lombardo at gmail.com> wrote: > Well I guess I'll probably try to get an IDE and scrap the RAID, but I > would like to know: why does the NT/W2K boot loader boot off the array > just fine? because windows loads the FS driver before everything else. You can get the same results in Linux if you make a custom initrd image to load the kernel module before the kernel needs to start accessing the disk. -- Loren H. Burlingame <loren at lhb.name> GPG Key ID: 0x112DCF4F "Irony can be pretty ironic sometimes." -William Shatner (a.k.a. Buck Murdock)