I followed direction on this Howto...: http://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-install-ubuntu8.04-with-software-raid1 and the set up went fine... but when I come to the section "Making every drive bootable" I totally don't get it. It says to "do the following" but it does not say where to do it.. p.s. I am not using a GUI at this point but I am not very well versed in Bash.
... I think I was not identifying the hard drive correctly... so that is why it was giving me an error. I found a command to list the hardware so I should be able to get it right on Monday. Thank You!