Problem with a RAID partitions

[Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI <renaud@olgiati-in-paraguay.org>]

My setup has eight RAID 1 partitions, md0 to md7, that should mount on /, sawp, /boot, /usr, /var, /clz, /home and /home/storage, the first seven on one pair of HDs, the last one on a second pair.

The problem: At each boot time, /dev/md7 fails to start, I have to give the root passwd, comment out in /etc/fstab the line for /dev/md7 and reboot.
Then, once started, uncomment /dev/md7, create anew the RAID pair, and mount it, whereupon it will spend the next couple hours syncing.

Is there a way to tell the system to create md7 at the same time as the others ?

Where should I look ?
 
Cheers,
 
Ron.

PS Is there a way to make vi available in the rescue console ?
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