Just got a new box with 2 identical SATA drives. Followed (as best as my poor eyes could see the screenshots) the advice given at http://en.opensuse.org/How_to_install_openSUSE_on_software_RAID (first time trying the RAID thing) Everything pretty much went as expected, but the system would not reboot from the HD(s) at the midpoint of the install. I then discovered the moment in "install" where one has the opportunity to do "select mode: other" and boot from installed system, and the installer picked up again just fine. (booting from /dev/md2) So, all seems well until I try rebooting normally. The thing hangs just where you would expect grub to take over. Repeatedly. Trying through the installer with the above trick works again but... that's not really an acceptable system. fdisk -l shows the following, but also emits a bunch of Disk /dev/md0 doesn't contain a valid partition table Disk /dev/md1 doesn't contain a valid partition table Disk /dev/md2 doesn't contain a valid partition table Disk /dev/md3 doesn't contain a valid partition table Wonder what that means...... TIA. Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x000af2c7 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 131 1052226 fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sda2 132 393 2104515 fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sda3 394 6921 52436160 fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sda4 6922 19457 100695420 fd Linux raid autodetect Disk /dev/sdb: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x000312b4 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 * 1 131 1052226 fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sdb2 132 393 2104515 fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sdb3 394 6921 52436160 fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sdb4 6922 19457 100695420 fd Linux raid autodetect Disk /dev/md0: 1077 MB, 1077465088 bytes 2 heads, 4 sectors/track, 263053 cylinders Units = cylinders of 8 * 512 = 4096 bytes Disk identifier: 0x00000000 Disk /dev/md1: 2155 MB, 2155008000 bytes 2 heads, 4 sectors/track, 526125 cylinders Units = cylinders of 8 * 512 = 4096 bytes Disk identifier: 0x00000000 Disk /dev/md2: 53.6 GB, 53694554112 bytes 2 heads, 4 sectors/track, 13109022 cylinders Units = cylinders of 8 * 512 = 4096 bytes Disk identifier: 0x00000000 Disk /dev/md3: 103.1 GB, 103112036352 bytes 2 heads, 4 sectors/track, 25173837 cylinders Units = cylinders of 8 * 512 = 4096 bytes Disk identifier: 0x00000000 Michael -- Michael Fischer michael@visv.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org