Package: debian-boot
Version: jessie rc1
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks the whole system
Dear Maintainer,
* What led up to the situation?
/ was installed on first RAID1 pair of partitions,
2nd RAID1 pair not used at first,
/srv on 3rd RAID1 pair.
I had a problem during configuration, and attempted to re-boot.
A single-line message appeared
Recovering Journal.
Gave up waiting and installed a new / on to the second RAID1
pair with the first as /oldroot and the third as /srv.
Continued with configuration until forced to shut down.
On re-boot the same 0ne-line message appeared
Recovering Journal.
I waited again, but there was no other message or any mention
of mdadm, so eventually gave up and looked using a knoppix
disk to find around 10 bytes on each of the 6 partitions (3 pairs)
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
ineffective)?
I did not see any mention of mdadm starting, nor was there any
oportunity to escape (apart from crashing out again)
* What was the outcome of this action?
Two disks that had been fully tested before use now totally wiped.
All I can do is attempt data recovery using testdisk
* What outcome did you expect instead?
I expected the system to start mdadm and then boot as usual.
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