Package: base Severity: important Dear Maintainer,
Install a Wheezy VM using debian-7.8.0-amd64-netinst.iso create a raid1 mirror in the drive setup mount / on /dev/md0 and install base system to it login grub-install /dev/vdb poweroff disable either drive /dev/vda or /dev/vdb (give VM access to only 1 drive) computer boots # cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid1] md0 : active raid1 vda1[1] 8382400 blocks super 1.2 [2/1] [_U] Sweet. Install a Jessie VM using debian-jessie-DI-rc1-amd64-netinst.iso create a raid1 mirror in the drive setup mount / on /dev/md0 and install base system to it login grub-install /dev/vdb poweroff disable either drive /dev/vda or /dev/vdb (give VM access to only 1 drive) ALERT! /dev/disk/by-uuid/XXXX does not exist. Dropping to a shell! (where XXXX is the uuid of /dev/md0) # cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : md0 : inactive vda1[0](S) 8382464 blocks super 1.2 Both refer to md0 by UUID in fstab. When I remove the "quiet" from the kernel boot args, this is the last line I see repeated over and over again until finally I get the error I described above: running /scripts/local-block I'm admitedly not a raid expert, but this seems to be really missing the point. Part of the reason I want a raid1 is so it can survive this type of scenario. I googled around and surprisingly came up with very few leads. I found a Ubuntu wiki (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/SoftwareRAID#Boot_from_Degraded_Disk) that discussed how to force it to boot a degraded raid but seemed to do nothing here on debian. I found a kernel boot arg that promised to do the same (http://serverfault.com/questions/196445/boot-debian-while-raid-array-is-degraded), but it didn't work either. What am I missing here? Shouldn't this work by default? I think a lot of people will get caught off guard by this thinking their startup drive is mirrored but the server won't boot without some manual intervention? Actually, I was not able to get it to boot at all. -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.8 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-0.bpo.4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
