On Thu, 16 Jan 2020 at 14:46, Shadrock Uhuru via arch-general <arch-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Hi > i have just configured my 4 disk raid 10 array with mdadm > the filesystem is ext4 unencrypted > and arch is installed on a separate disk > do i need to reconfigure mkinitcpio.conf for my md array > so that the array is assembled and started at boot, > all the examples i've seen have arch installed on the raid array > including the example in the wiki https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/RAID > i have not reboot the new array yet > so i would like to make sure everything necessary is configure before i do that. you need the "mdadm" hook in HOOKS in /etc/mkinitcpio.conf, and rebuild the initramfs. the hook would auto-detect the raid setup, but it will also include /etc/mdadm.conf if it exists. -- damjan