* Charles Nadeau <charles [ dot ] nadeau [ at ] gmail [ dot ] com> [090319 22:35]: > > Do you boot with an initrd or do you have a custom kernel? > > I have a custom kernel You clearly don't boot off this raid array, and I can see that you have built MD and RAID modules into the kernel but left the ahci ones out. I suggest you either edit your kernel-source/.config to have CONFIG_MD=m (a module) or CONFIG_SATA_AHCI=y (a built-in). Doing both should be safe also. Another alternative could be to set CONFIG_MD_AUTODETECT=n, which would cause the kernel to not even try to bring up the raid array. Then run: make oldconfig grep -e CONFIG_MD -e CONFIG_SATA_AHCI .config # verify that the CONFIG_MD and CONFIG_SATA_AHCI were not reverted make make install That should make the kernel probe the hardware before brining up the raid. -Bart > Ottawa Virtual Machines # lsmod > Module Size Used by > vmnet 32576 13 > vmmon 1840076 0 > snd_pcm_oss 41920 0 > snd_mixer_oss 16768 1 snd_pcm_oss > snd_seq_oss 32640 0 > snd_seq_midi_event 8640 1 snd_seq_oss > snd_seq 56992 4 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event > snd_seq_device 8148 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq > snd_hda_intel 461740 7 > snd_pcm 84808 4 snd_pcm_oss,snd_hda_intel > snd_timer 23376 4 snd_seq,snd_pcm > nvidia 7804328 26 > snd 66760 18 > snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm,snd_timer > soundcore 8544 1 snd > aic7xxx 146812 0 > snd_page_alloc 9616 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm > ahci 34184 8 > i2c_nforce2 7296 0 -- WebSig: http://www.jukie.net/~bart/sig/