On Monday 18 August 2008, Ross Becker wrote: > One more comment on this; I can understand the "conservative" > behaviour, but when an array was degraded, the boot process halted with > NO MESSAGE indicating what was wrong. Please whatever you do, even in > the case of maintaining "conservative" behavior, emit a message telling > the user why you're not continuing the boot process.
I totally agree. The system seems to hang at a certain point, and when you wait long enough (180s as far as I understand from this discussion) and then drops you into initramfs. I tried 999 different ways of modifying grub, fstab, mdadm.conf becasue I didn't know WHY the system couldn't boot. The fact was that I very well KNEW the array was degraded, too. A warning message would have helped tremendously. Also, since there is no message and no indication of what was wrong, I had a very hard time finding this thread. I almost exploded when I found the thread, saw it's age, and all the possible workarounds, and the fact that it is not a problem in Debian. This behaviour really and very strongly diminishes my trust in Ubuntu as a system for my servers. Just a question: have you any idea how many systems are affected? The popularity contest says: mdadm 25199 5566 19467 156 10 -- cannot boot raid1 with only one disk https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/120375 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
