Well things seem stable now. I can do a complete shutdown to a powered off state and restart with the bootloader being found in the MBR now as well as a warm reboot. At this point I am wondering if the stage2 error I initially saw might have been related to the machine attempting to boot off of the second SATA drive at /dev/sdb in the RAID-1 array (due to the first not coming up for some reason). If that is the case it would suggest the Tux Tip for making the second drive bootable may not really work. Also I am still very concerned about this issue of grub-install not being able to write the MBR for RAID-1 drives after the initial installation. This really needs to be addressed for FC3. Otherwise what options to I have if my MBR gets managled other than resorting to a clean install of FC2? Blah. Jack ps On the positive side I did see the resync of the two drives after I finally got the RAID-1 to boot again so I know the RAID-1 really works (grin).