Thank you, all, for your insights. When I composed the first message, I had in mind the olden days when I often (not always ;<) made a bootable floppy when I made a new kernel. That bootable floppy booted off of the exact same kernel, except a different copy residing on the floppy. When the system completed boot, I was logging into the actual system, even though I booted off of the floppy based kernel. The problem with knoppix cd, and the debian installation/rescue cd, is that they do NOT understand the specifics of my lvm over software raid 5. The specifics required probably all reside under /etc -- on a filesystem in lvm on software raid 5. Actually, I believe that both instances that stung me were lilo, not grub; and, NO, there is no /boot outside of both lvm and software raid 5. What do you think? -- Best Regards, helices - Dare to fix things before they break . . . - Our capacity for understanding is inversely proportional to how much we think we know. The more I know, the more I know I don't know . . . --
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