1) look at your syslog / dmesg to see what auto-detection and initial tries by your configuration said. 2) You probably want something like I keep as a backup in my initrd/initramfs images: /sbin/mdadm --examine --scan /dev/[sh]d* /dev/mapper/* > /etc/mdadm.conf.OR.SOME.FILE /sbin/mdadm --assemble --scan --no-degraded --config=/etc/mdadm.conf.OR.SOME.FILE If you drop the .OR.SOME.FILE you don't need to specify a non-default config. You also don't need to specify any config if you explicitly name your devices: I'm asking mdadm to examine every block device (and partition on such) that I think even possibly could be a raid member. -- 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
