[Bug 652327] Re: mdadm update is scaring me: "YOUR SYSTEM IS NOW UNBOOTABLE!"

2012-07-30 Thread Craig Hansen
On many of my systems, the assignment of drives to letters depends on a number of unpredictable factors, so it's much safer to use the UUID to define arrays than /dev/sd[a-z]1. Running "sudo mdadm --detail --scan" usually gets you pretty good ARRAY lines to put into your mdadm.conf file. -- You

[Bug 652327] Re: mdadm update is scaring me: "YOUR SYSTEM IS NOW UNBOOTABLE!"

2010-10-19 Thread whoop
/usr/share/mdadm/mkconf gives me: # mdadm.conf # # Please refer to mdadm.conf(5) for information about this file. # # by default, scan all partitions (/proc/partitions) for MD superblocks. # alternatively, specify devices to scan, using wildcards if desired. DEVICE /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1 # auto-crea

[Bug 652327] Re: mdadm update is scaring me: "YOUR SYSTEM IS NOW UNBOOTABLE!"

2010-10-19 Thread Surbhi Palande
@whoop, will you please do the following: 1) copy your mdadm.conf somewhere safe 2) run /usr/share/mdadm/mkconf and see if the definition of md0 is in place. If so please use "generate" with mkconf to generate a new mdadm.conf. While updating initramfs, the mdadm's initramfs hook expects that th

[Bug 652327] Re: mdadm update is scaring me: "YOUR SYSTEM IS NOW UNBOOTABLE!"

2010-10-19 Thread Surbhi Palande
@tombert, your bug is different than this bug. Please do open another bug for the same and run apport-collect for it. Thanks! -- mdadm update is scaring me: "YOUR SYSTEM IS NOW UNBOOTABLE!" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/652327 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubunt

[Bug 652327] Re: mdadm update is scaring me: "YOUR SYSTEM IS NOW UNBOOTABLE!"

2010-10-16 Thread tombert
Found another possibility to make the system start: from the modules file: /lib/modules//modules.* remove all occurances which load raid libraries - they include the path .../md/... then run: depmod then run: update-initramfs -u the system boots again. I'am trying to manually assemble the rai

[Bug 652327] Re: mdadm update is scaring me: "YOUR SYSTEM IS NOW UNBOOTABLE!"

2010-10-16 Thread whoop
Tombert: I think you are suffering from another problem than I am trying to describe in this bug report I assume this as your problem is an unbootable system, me problem is that it boots just fine... -- mdadm update is scaring me: "YOUR SYSTEM IS NOW UNBOOTABLE!" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bu

[Bug 652327] Re: mdadm update is scaring me: "YOUR SYSTEM IS NOW UNBOOTABLE!"

2010-10-16 Thread tombert
Here the steps to rescue the system: Boot with the live CD. Mount the hard-disc: mount /dev/sda1 /mnt Mount system folders into sda1: mount –t proc none /mnt/proc mount –o bind /dev /mnt/dev mount –o bind /sys /mnt/sys Change the apparent disk root directory: chroot /mnt Now delete all occuren

[Bug 652327] Re: mdadm update is scaring me: "YOUR SYSTEM IS NOW UNBOOTABLE!"

2010-10-16 Thread tombert
Does affect me as well - here are the steps to reproduce: Fresh install of Ubuntu Desktop 10.10, performing all online updates - reboot works fine. Then install mdadm the system does not boot any more: mount: mounting /dev/disk/by-uuid/ on /root failed: Device or resource busy ... ... No init

[Bug 652327] Re: mdadm update is scaring me: "YOUR SYSTEM IS NOW UNBOOTABLE!"

2010-10-16 Thread tombert
This bug is a real killer - please put this to your highest prio or please give some workarounds! thx -- mdadm update is scaring me: "YOUR SYSTEM IS NOW UNBOOTABLE!" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/652327 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscr

[Bug 652327] Re: mdadm update is scaring me: "YOUR SYSTEM IS NOW UNBOOTABLE!"

2010-09-30 Thread whoop
** Attachment added: "BootDmesg.txt" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/652327/+attachment/1658870/+files/BootDmesg.txt ** Attachment added: "CurrentDmesg.txt" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/652327/+attachment/1658871/+files/CurrentDmesg.txt ** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt" http