Doruk Fisek wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I made a Slackware 10.0 installation with XFS filesystem and setup
> all the partitions software raid (/dev/md0, etc...).
>
> Everything works fine, except that I cannot make LILO boot the md0
> partition (not /dev/hda or /dev/hdc).
>
> Most documents I've found googling suggest to write boot = /dev/md0
> to lilo.conf which tells LILO to use the superblock on the disk.
> Unfortunately XFS uses that superblock so it cannot be written by
> Lilo.
>
> If I use boot = /dev/hda, LILO successfully boots the system but in
> that case if /dev/hda fails, the system cannot boot /dev/hdc directly.
> Something like boot=dev/md does not work out.
>

Have you tried

root=/dev/md0