Hi again -- ...and then David T-G home said... % ... % How do I repair grub2 to get back to booting on sda first, just so that % we can be back where we were and I can start adding the slices? I'll % tackle migration from sda (raw) to sde (mirrors) once it's up and running % again; for now I just want to get back to where I was. Figuring that I have nothing to lose on the blank /dev/sde, I went ahead and sliced it and created half mirrors and ran an install there in the hope that I could get another working grub2 installation. This one complained about MBR and doesn't boot just like the original has broken, so that isn't the easy answer -- although perhaps having the md structure in place changed something. But I'll need to be there in the end anyway, and it sure would be nice to understand how the original installations worked, so onward, ever onward ... *sigh* :-D -- David T-G See http://justpickone.org/davidtg/email/ See http://justpickone.org/davidtg/tofu.txt