--- On Tue, 2/17/09, S D <sundimi@yahoo.com> wrote: The issue was solved by: # rm -rf /var/lib/mdadm/CONF-UNCHECKED # update-initramfs -ut -k 2.6.26-1-686 See /usr/share/doc/mdadm/README.upgrading-2.5.3.gz for more details.