OK, I bought myself a Mylex Acceleraid 170 Raid, and a couple of 10k u160 36Mb drives and set up a RAID 1 config. I wanted to be able to run the same kernel I was running on other machines (2.2.17) and I wasn't able to find a distro that would install directly to the RAID array, so I installed to a SCSI drive attached to a BusTek KT958. After the install I fdisked the RAID array, made appropriate filesystems, copied the filesystems from the BusTek SCSI drive to the RAID array, modified lilo to boot from the RAID array, shut the machine off, yanked the power from the drive connected to the BusTek, rebooted and voila', I booted from the RAID array. I was feeling pretty smug until I removed the BusTek card from the PCI bus (which wasn't connected to any drives). When I did this and powered up, the LILO prompt never appeared - just a bunch of linefeeds (at least thats how it appeared - the cursor walked to the bottom of the screen, and then the Mainboard BIOS messages scrolled off the top). Bemused I put the BusTek card back on the PCI slot (again, nothing attached), powered up, and I booted from the RAID array without problem. Too weird for my besotted brain - anyone have any thoughts? Kent