the way i licked this is i took the md entry out of the fstab and after the boot script finishes i have a shell script that performs the filesystem check on the md then mounts it. this works like a charm in our shop. Craig Sanders wrote: >however, this causes problems with 'depmod -a' because the / fs is >still mounted RO at this time. hmm. if / is still RO at this point, the fsck on root probably failed... m* -- "The Shining One" --