[arch-general] Why Is My RAID Installing Failing?

[Baho Utot]

Alexander Duscheleit wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 20:49:40 -0500
>> Baho Utot <baho-utot at columbus.rr.com> wrote:
> 
[putolin]


>> Notice no initrd in the above

> I'm not entirely sure, *how* the system manages to find raid-members
> and assembles them in this cases.
> A while ago there was a kernel-level raid auto detection which is
> marked as deprecated and advised against in favor of userspace raid
> assembly via initrd.
> Perhaps Slackware is still using this feature. It didn't work for me
> either on gentoo or arch though.
> This would indicate, that the md=2,... line is superfluous in this case.

The kernel must assemble them because I have 6 raid arrays on this 
machine and slack finds them all without a /etc/mdadm.conf file.