Unfortunately, the only way to run any script before `mount -a` is to add it directly to /etc/rc.d/rc.S before line 196. rc.local is hackish, but there is no "rc.beforemount" in Zenwalk or standard Slackware :-(.

Cheers,
sega01

Thank you much for your help! rc.local should be the best place for the raid setup, but now i should not have to put a mknod in rc files.

I appreciate everybody's time and assistance!

hi,

i have raid1 setup with zw 4.6 without using any mknod or rc.local

here is what you need to do....

set partitions you want to have in ride to fd type (raid auto detect)
let say you want to have ride 1 between sdb1 and sdc1:
mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level=1 --raid-devices=2 /dev/sd[bc]1

mkfs ..... /dev/md0 ......mount

thats it ...the ride array will auto start after every reboot

hope it helps
rado.

xrado,
zenserver seems to differ from zenwalk in this regard, as well as others. the device node md0 is not present. therefore if you just use mdadm it throws an error stating that /dev/md0 does not exist. it cannot create or reassemble the array. if you then manually make the node using mknod you can use mdadm to create and reassamble it. however, on reboot it is gone. it has to be re-created at each boot thus using rc files is how it is easily done.

i can not explain why that is, maybe missing a module that zenwalk and most distros have, but that is the way it is. thank you for your thoughts though.