From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Jim Paris <jim@jtan.com>
Subject: Re: RAID 5 questions
Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2004 02:09:40 -0400
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> Umm, I maybe writing on complitely different setup (can't check the 
> original post), but our server with software raid 5 (3 disks) is booting 
> with lilo just fine.

README.raid from lilo-22.5.9 (the latest version) states:

"Only RAID1 is supported.  LILO may be used to boot a system
containing other RAID level partitions, but it may not be installed
on any RAID partition other than RAID level 1."

so I don't believe you.  You may be confusing "booting off RAID-5"
with "having a RAID-5 root".

-jim