automounting raid array drops to initramfs not boot drive

[Tom Sparks]

>________________________________

> From: JD <jd1008 at gmail.com>
>To: Tom Sparks <tom_a_sparks at yahoo.com.au>; "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> 
>Sent: Sunday, 10 February 2013 12:25 PM
>Subject: Re: automounting raid array drops to initramfs not boot drive
> 
>
>
>
>
>On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 6:16 PM, Tom Sparks <tom_a_sparks at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
>
>On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 4:22 PM, Tom Sparks <tom_a_sparks at yahoo.com.au>wrote: <snip
>>>  FWIW,
>>> Tom, can you please add to that fstab entry  the fstype (such as
>>> ext2 or ext3 or ext4 or vfs or whatever it is)  just before defaults
>>> and see if that solves the problem?
>>
>>I was quote the other fstab from memory
>>
>>it has ext4, just checked
>>updated fstab
>>
>>/dev/md0p1 /media/disk/ ext4 defaults 0 1
>>
>>
>>no change
>>
>>
>
>Hi Tom,
>Please have a look here:
>http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Initramfs
>
>I believe it will answer your dilemma
I copied my backup copy of mdadm.conf to /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf
ran sudo update-initramfs -u -vv -k all
rebooted
I got dropped back to the initramfs prompt again
so I typed mdadm /dev/md0
I got told the raid array was recovering
i type exit
I get "the disk drive for" * "is not ready yet or not present" message

I press S and has to manually mount the raid array :(