greetz this relates to my previous posts to which i havent heard much yet :/ im trying to install opensuse 10.1 on my newly built system msi k8n diamond amd 3500 1gb 1x maxtor ide 60gb 6l060j3 hda 1x maxtor ide 61gb 96147u8 hdd 4x maxtor sata 160gb 6L160m0 sda/sdb/sdc/sdd now i want to raid the first two disks (ide) as the following 1gb /boot md0 ext2 30gb / md1 reiserfs 2gb / md2 swap (i have my own reasons on why i want to partition so, so no need to quote on that :) the sata drives are to be in a raid5 md3 (xfs) now when opensuse 10.1 attempts to detect the hard drives, it claims that the ide disks and second sata disk are presented by the bios as being in configured for fake raid, now this is not true as i have disabled all raid related refferences from the bios. /dev/hda /dev/hdd /dev/hdc what could be causing that and any ideas on how it could be fixed? i tried to continue, and i was able to successfully install suse 10.1 on single ide disks without raid without any probs, both ide disks worked fine. but when i try to configure software raid (from linux) and to use the ide disks. after the first boot, the os doesnt boot, "no operating system found" any ideas what is causing this? i have used the same configuration setup a number of times on vmware without any probs, but now when attempting to apply the tested configurations on vmware on the actual hardware, it fails. hoping someone could enlighted. -- Regards -RP- ___________________________ If computers were made in heaven, would they be perfect? ___________________________