On Tuesday June 26, ian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > When I try and disable auto detection, with kernel boot parameters, it > goes ahead and auto assembles and runs anyway. The md= parameters seem > to be noticed, but don't seem to have any other effect (beyond resulting > in a dmesg). Odd.... Maybe you have an initrd which is loading md as a module, then running "raidautorun" or similar? > > This is driving me nuts. Maybe changing the type of the hda partitions > would help? Definitely. Change the partition types. NeilBrown - 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