Boot System Rescue CD and check it out.  

http://www.sysresccd.org  

It will give you all the tools you need to investigate without booting in to
the live filesystem.  

Kelly  
>  Thu Mar 21 2013 09:35:53 AM CDT from "Yaron" <tclug at freakzilla.com> 
>Subject: Re: [tclug-list] Software RAID issues...
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>  fstab has defaults. But this is well before mounting happens. If I let it 
> boot with the "degraded" raid, THEN it has a problem mounting, but that's 
> not a problem, really. The problem is that when mdadm starts assembling 
> the RAID (I think) it fails and drops me into busybox.
> 
> This happens right at the top of the kernel boot, so there's really no 
> logging or any useful error reporting going on.
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> On Thu, 21 Mar 2013, gregrwm wrote:
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>>what's in fstab?  errors=remount-ro?  errors=continue?  nobootwait?
>> 
>> tho i confess i dunno if anything in fstab actually affects softraid error
>> response.  i can tell you that interpretation of certain fstab options
>> varies considerably amongst distros and releases..
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