Is there a reason why after a software raid install (from kickstart) that md1 is always unclean. md0 seems fine. boot screen says md1 is dirty and cat /proc/mdstat show md1 as being rebuilt. Any ideas? Jerry --------------- my kickstart -------------- echo "bootloader --location=mbr --driveorder=$HD1SHORT --append=\"rhgb quiet\" " > /tmp/partition-information echo "clearpart --all --initlabel " >> /tmp/partition-information echo "part --ondisk=$HD1SHORT raid.01 --asprimary --bytes-per-inode=4096 --fstype="raid" --size=20000 " >> /tmp/partition-information echo "part --ondisk=$HD1SHORT swap --asprimary --bytes-per-inode=4096 --fstype="swap" --size=4000 " >> /tmp/partition-information echo "part --ondisk=$HD1SHORT raid.02 --asprimary --bytes-per-inode=4096 --fstype="raid" --size=1 --grow " >> /tmp/partition-information echo "part --ondisk=$HD2SHORT raid.03 --asprimary --bytes-per-inode=4096 --fstype="raid" --size=20000 " >> /tmp/partition-information echo "part --ondisk=$HD2SHORT swap --asprimary --bytes-per-inode=4096 --fstype="swap" --size=4000 " >> /tmp/partition-information echo "part --ondisk=$HD2SHORT raid.04 --asprimary --bytes-per-inode=4096 --fstype="raid" --size=1 --grow " >> /tmp/partition-information echo "raid / --bytes-per-inode=4096 --device=md0 --fstype="ext3" --level=1 raid.01 raid.03 " >> /tmp/partition-information echo "raid /home --bytes-per-inode=4096 --device=md1 --fstype="ext3" --level=1 raid.02 raid.04 " >> /tmp/partition-information