>>> Odd.... >>> Maybe you have an initrd which is loading md as a module, then >>> running "raidautorun" or similar? .. >I suspect that the last comment is the clue, after pivotroot I bet it >runs another init, not from the boot/initrd images, but from the init.d >in the root filesystem. One quick way to test this is to boot with "init=/bin/sh" This lets all the initrd stuff run but nothing from the root filesystem. I had a similar problem and found that Fedora's /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit was starting up the raid arrays -- that script should probably look for "raid=noautodetect" in /proc/cmdline. HTH - 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