mdadm: Failed to assemble all arrays

[martin f krafft]

also sprach David Andel <andel at ifi.uzh.ch> [2010.03.05.1508 +0100]:
> (initramfs) mdadm -C /dev/md1 -l1 -n2 /dev/sd[ab]5
> mdadm: /dev/sda5 appears to be part of a raid array:

Why are you using -C?? You are overwriting your previous array, and
likely all data on the volumes.

> md: md1: resync done.
> (initramfs) mount /dev/md1 /root
> mount: mounting /dev/md1 on /root failed: No such file or directory
> (initramfs) ls -l /dev/md1
> brw-rw----   1   0   0   9,   1 Mar 5 09:59 /dev/md1

Does /root exist?

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