Also confirmed.  Happens on Feisty Herd 4-5 at least.

My configuration:

2 sata drives

sda1: /boot ext3, 1gb, bootable
sda2: /srv/spare ext3, 20gb
sda3: swap, 4gb
sda4: RAID physical, 134gb

sdb1: /srv/boot-backup ext3, 1gb
sdb2: /srv/spare2 ext3, 20gb
sdb3: swap, 4gb
sdb4: RAID physical, 134gb

md0: sda4+sdb4 RAID-0, root (/), ext3

Installation goes fine, no problems.  On boot, the console shows:

* Mounting root file system
* Loading MD modules
* md: raid0 personality registered/Success: loaded module raid0.
* Begin: Assembling all MD arrays
* mdadm: No devices listed in conf file were found.
* Failure: failed to assemble all arrays
* Waiting for root file system...
[...]
* Mounting /root/dev on /dev/.static/dev failed: No such file...
* Target filesystem doesn't have /sbin/init 

And drops into an initramfs prompt.  At that prompt, I can 'mdadm
--assemble /dev/md0' without problems.

Adding a 'break=mount' to the GRUB prompt, and then exiting when dropped
into the prompt, allows the boot to proceed without any problem.

Happens on both a white-box server and a virtual machine running in
Parallels.

For quite a while, I interpreted this behavior to mean that installing
Ubuntu Feisty onto a RAID-0 root was not supported.

I'm reinstalling from scratch because my Edgy upgrade broke the machine
in a way I interpreted as initrd driver issues.  In retrospect, it was
probably this bug that hit me during upgrade.

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boot on md raid drives fails
https://launchpad.net/bugs/79204

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