I have kernel-2.2.16-3.i386.rpm.

I have lilo 21.4-3

I have /etc/raidtab =
raiddev /dev/md0
        raid-level              1
        nr-raid-disks           2
        persistent-superblock   1
        chunk-size              4
        device                  /dev/sda1
        failed-disk             0
        device                  /dev/sdb1
        raid-disk               1
raiddev /dev/md1
        raid-level              1
        nr-raid-disks           2
        persistent-superblock   1
        chunk-size              4
        device                  /dev/sda5
        raid-disk               0
        device                  /dev/sdb5
        raid-disk               1
raiddev /dev/md2
        raid-level              1
        nr-raid-disks           2
        persistent-superblock   1
        chunk-size              4
        device                  /dev/sda6
        raid-disk               0
        device                  /dev/sdb6
        raid-disk               1
raiddev /dev/md3
        raid-level              1
        nr-raid-disks           2
        persistent-superblock   1
        chunk-size              4
        device                  /dev/sda7
        raid-disk               0
        device                  /dev/sdb7
        raid-disk               1
raiddev /dev/md4
        raid-level              1
        nr-raid-disks           2
        persistent-superblock   1
        chunk-size              4
        device                  /dev/sda8
        raid-disk               0
        device                  /dev/sdb8
        raid-disk               1
raiddev /dev/md5
        raid-level              1
        nr-raid-disks           2
        persistent-superblock   1
        chunk-size              4
        device                  /dev/sda9
        raid-disk               0
        device                  /dev/sdb9
        raid-disk               1

I have the following mounts =
Filesystem 1k-blocks    Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1     127902   40987     80311  34% /
/dev/md1    10079980   37028   9530908   0% /home
/dev/md2     4032448  416788   3410816  11% /usr
/dev/md4      254699      14    241533   0% /tmp
/dev/md5      254699    6766    234781   3% /var
/dev/md3     2016656    1992   1912220   0% /usr/local
/dev/md0      127790   40988     80204  34% /stage

/proc/mdstat =
Personalities : [raid1] 
read_ahead 1024 sectors
md0 : active raid1 sdb1[1] 131968 blocks [2/1] [_U]
md3 : active raid1 sdb7[1] sda7[0] 2048896 blocks [2/2] [UU]
md1 : active raid1 sdb5[1] sda5[0] 10240896 blocks [2/2] [UU]
md2 : active raid1 sdb6[1] sda6[0] 4096896 blocks [2/2] [UU]
md4 : active raid1 sdb8[1] sda8[0] 263040 blocks [2/2] [UU]
md5 : active raid1 sdb9[1] sda9[0] 263040 blocks [2/2] [UU]
unused devices: <none>

/stage/etc/lilo.conf =
boot = /dev/md0
delay = 5
vga = normal
root = /dev/md0
image = /boot/bzImage
  label = linux

when I run lilo I get the following:
[root@otherweb /root]# lilo -r /stage
boot = /dev/sdb, map = /boot/map.0811
Added bzImage *
Syntax error near line 2 in file /etc/lilo.conf

raid1 is in the kernel and /stage is a copy of / fs.

Even with a /stage/etc/lilo.conf =
boot=/dev/md0
image=/boot/bzImage
  label=linux
  root=/dev/md0

I get the same error message.

The idea is to boot the new md0 root partition in degraded mode and
then raidhotadd the sda1 partition which is currently root to the
md0 device.

Anyone have any idea what I'm doing wrong?
Is there a better way?

Hugh.

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