My first attempt at software RAID (I usually use the ICP Vortex cards).
 
I got RH 6.1 to install and it created a nice RAID 0 partition from 2 SCSI disks of 9 Gig each on the Adaptec 2940U2W card.
 
Then I needed to rebuild the kernel to include some other options and this is where things go awry.  Now when I boot I get the following around the time it is trying to clean/mount /dev/md0:
 
 /proc/mdstat Bad file descriptor
/dev/md0 Invalid argument
/dev/md0 must be a nonpersistenc RAID0 or LINEAR array!
 
I made sure that the RAID 0 and Linear modes were turned on in the kernel.  Here is what make menuconfig shows:

  x x  [*] Multiple devices driver support                                  
  x x  <*>    Linear (append) mode                                          
  x x  <*>    RAID-0 (striping) mode                                        
  x x  < >    RAID-1 (mirroring) mode                                       
  x x  < >    RAID-4/RAID-5 mode                                            
  x x  [*]       Boot support (linear, striped)                            
 
What kernel option did I leave out?
 
Thanks,
Chris

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