automounting raid array drops to initramfs not boot drive

[Tom H]

On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 5:10 AM, Tom Sparks <tom_a_sparks at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
>
> 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 :(

You can't have both md0 and md0p1 on the same system.