On 1/8/06, James Lee <<a href="mailto:james_lee31@hotmail.com">james_lee31@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:<div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> 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 <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=113493016200002&r=1&w=2)">http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=113493016200002&r=1&w=2)</a>. 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... -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com"> ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users">http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div> Check your /etc/fstab file I believe and add the option noauto after defaults for the /dev/md0 device (i think would be your first software raid device?)