Disabling RAID autodetecion at boot time

[Phillip Susi]

If you don't want md raid to start in the initramfs, move 
/usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/local-top/md out of the way ( like to 
your home dir ), and update-initramfs.

James Lee wrote:

> I'm having a problem which I'm not having much success getting around 
> at the moment:
>
> I'm trying to disable autostarting of my software RAID array at 
> startup (because this is interfereing with EVMS's management of 
> them).  I've tried removing the mdadm and mdadm-raid startup scripts 
> from /etc/init.d/, I've added a "raid=noautodetect" boot parameter to 
> the bootloader, and I've made sure that the partition types on the 
> disks are not set to raid autodetect.  For good measure, i've also 
> made sure that there's no mention of the array in the mdadm.conf file.
>
> However the array is still being autostarted (not by EVMS) at 
> startup.  I've tried to get some advice on this on the EVMS mailing 
> lists, and it's been suggested that the array may be being started in 
> my initrd (see http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=113493016200002&r=1&w=2).
>
> I'm sort of running out of ideas here... does anyone have any 
> suggestions as to how to disable autostarting of md devices?  Any help 
> would be much appreciated...
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