found a solution: The whole thing worked after compiling md and raid1 modules into the kernel and not as modules A problem was mkinitrd in debian ubuntu, that is trying to be smart and complains about a missing raid1 module when building the initial ramdisk with mkinitrd I had to patch the mkinitrd shellscript to ignore md and raid1 modules. Someone told me to add a md=1,/dev/hda2,/dev/hdc2 to the kernel boot options to explicitly name the raid devices. It seems that this has effect only when the drivers are compiled into the kernel. The mashine is running fine now. Thanks for your help - 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
