Problems with mounting RAID5 array at boot

[Matt Perry <matt@primefactor.com>]

Hi everyone.  I have a new debian system that I just installed and then
upgraded from Woody to testing.  Now that it's up and running I wanted to
mount a RAID5 array on four drives with some existing data.  This RAID
array was originally set up under RedHat.  I installed the raidtools2
package, copied over my raidtab file /etc and then rebooted.

Now when I boot I get the following error:

Checking all file systems...
fsck 1.35 (28-Feb-2004)
fsck.ext3: Invalid argument while trying to open /dev/md0
/dev/md0:
The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2
filesystems.  If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2
filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock
is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock:
    e2fsck -b 8193 <device>

fsck failed.  Please repair manually.


Now here I can type control-D to boot up normally or enter the root
password to boot into single user mode.  If I hit control-D then the
system will come up and mount my array as listed in /etc/fstab without
any problems.  It just seems that I can't get it to make it past the
filesystem check.

Any ideas on how to fix this?

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Matt Perry | matt at primefactor dot com