All I have is one big RAID - five disks with a hot spare.  I put ./boot on 
it's own partition but that's on the RAID, too.  

I planned to do a reinstall (since it's a new system I can't lose anything) 
anyway so I'll try LILO this time.  I haven't used GRUB on anything except 
a standard system with no raid.  I'll do a workstation install instead of 
selecting packages.  If that works I'll go back and do another install with 
the packages I want.  I'll tell it to format the partitions each time.

Thanks.


> Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
>> Okay, on the bug - I won't worry.  Actually, Caldera 3.1 couldn't make a
>> boot floppy anyway!
>> 
>> It appears that Linux never gets to boot.  I go through the hardware
>> check,
>> 
> 
> Hmmm. Where is the MBR located on a RAID 5 partition? RAID 1 puts it in
> the first 512k of the disk, but RAID 5, I don't know. I'd try putting
> /boot on a separate partition that's not part of the RAID array. You may
> want to use LILO, as I've had GRUB fail on RAID arrays. LILO never has.

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