Thanks Neil. > > Thanks for the extra detail. Everything looks sensible so far. > > Can you check the contents of mdadm.conf on the initrd please. > e.g. > > cd /tmp > zcat /boot/initrd | cpio -idv > cat etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf > > something like that. > > NeilBrown > content of /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-24-generic: ; egrep -v '^#|^$' etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf CREATE owner=root group=disk mode=0660 auto=yes HOMEHOST <system> ARRAY /dev/md/0 metadata=1.2 UUID=4195aaa7:0ebd37ce:d4b9481e:1a68f4a8 name=disc:0 -- 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