Debian with a root filesystem on LVM on top of software raid works. I ran a quick test installing from a recent Debian Sarge Install CD. I partitioned the drives, created the software raid, and then setup LVM. No special boot partitions are required. Lilo is used to boot instead of grub. The setup was painless. As previously discussed I won't be using this setup. I was just curious to see if it would actually work. -- sg