seems surprising. i'd poke at it thus: try /boot as nonraid 300mb ext3, making sure it's the first partition on the disc, using a dos partition table. if that works, try changing various of those parameters back again. once narrowed down, oogle for similar reports. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20130801/06125bf2/attachment.html>