fstab has defaults. But this is well before mounting happens. If I let it boot with the "degraded" raid, THEN it has a problem mounting, but that's not a problem, really. The problem is that when mdadm starts assembling the RAID (I think) it fails and drops me into busybox. This happens right at the top of the kernel boot, so there's really no logging or any useful error reporting going on. On Thu, 21 Mar 2013, gregrwm wrote: > what's in fstab? errors=remount-ro? errors=continue? nobootwait? > > tho i confess i dunno if anything in fstab actually affects softraid error > response. i can tell you that interpretation of certain fstab options > varies considerably amongst distros and releases.. > > --