Re: Towards a working initrd.img file

[Peter Tenenbaum <peter.g.tenenbaum@gmail.com>]

Thanks for all the helpful ideas, all!  As it turns out, the solution to my problem was straightforward:  I needed to do a dpkg-reconfigure mdadm, and specify that all multi-drive arrays need to be started in order to access root.  Once that was completed, update-initramfs produced an initrd.img which permits booting on my computer.  Like the man said about sharpening and aligning a plane, "None of this is rocket science, but at the same time you're not born knowing it!"

-PT