Mike Hardy answered my question:
The reason that raidstart was not working during bootup was that I did not
have the driver for the highpoint rocket 133 that provided the mount points
/dev/hde and /dev/hdg loaded in initrd.img.
As soon as i added the hpt366 module to the initrd, IT WORKED!!!!
thanks to your Mike,
And thank you wonderful list members for your help! !!
Mitchell