Thanks for the help, i solved it so: i had a spare partition-pair mirrored, i copied the / fs on it, told lilo that this new md will be the new root fs, and voila! thanks to all who helped. charlie -- Vegh Karoly -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-request@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org