Hi Randall, { Convention on kernel.org is reply-to-all and to avoid top-posting. I added the list back. } On 11/28/2016 05:56 PM, Randall C. Grimshaw wrote: > Thank you Phil: > the linux rescue mode didn't have blkid but I had the uuid's from mdadm --examine, > so I tried uuid=xxxxx in the fstab file. no joy. it is failing in the load of the ramfs, after assembly but before fstab. > it appears that I am caught in the catch22 where I cannot update initramfs until I minimally fix the duplicate md122 problem so that I can assemble /var and mount it. > Randall You must use the form UUID="xxxx" with caps and quotes. you can test with mount UUID="....." /path/to/mount/point to check. Phil -- 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