it has taken me about a week to realize that you need to have swraid partitions set to type '0xfd' in order for raid autodetect to work.
not that i'm bitter.
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i'm a knife
(gdb) down Bottom (i.e., innermost) frame selected; you cannot go down. (gdb) up Initial frame selected; you cannot go up. (gdb) down Bottom (i.e., innermost) frame selected; you cannot go down. (gdb) up Initial frame selected; you cannot go up.
i'm going to sleep.