Mike Hardy answered my question: The reason that raidstart was not working during bootup was that I did not have the driver for the highpoint rocket 133 that provided the mount points /dev/hde and /dev/hdg loaded in initrd.img. As soon as i added the hpt366 module to the initrd, IT WORKED!!!! thanks to your Mike, And thank you wonderful list members for your help! !! Mitchell - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html