On Tuesday 19 August 2008, Dustin Kirkland wrote: > The new behavior present in Intrepid, following my series of patches, > results in the following message being printed to the console after 30 > seconds of waiting for a complete array... > > | There appears to be one or more degraded RAID devices, and your > | root device may depend on the RAID devices being online. One or more > | of the > > following RAID > > | devices are degraded: > | md0 : inactive sda1[0](S) > | 1020032 blocks > > [See attached screenshot] > > You can configure your RAID to boot even if degraded by running > `dpkg-reconfigure mdadm`, or, you can simply edit the file: > /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/mdadm by hand, and set BOOT_DEGRADED=true. > They have the same effect. > > Additionally, you can set or override this on the kernel boot line by > entering the grub menu and using any of the following: > * bootdegraded > * bootdegraded=1, bootdegraded=true, bootdegraded=on, bootdegraded=yes > > If BOOT_DEGRADED=true, it will continue to boot automatically in the > event of a degraded RAID event. > > If those are set to false, the following prompt will appear, and wait > 15 seconds for you to hit 'y' or 'n', at which point it will default > > to 'n': > | ** WARNING: The root filesystem was found on a degraded RAID array! > | ** > | > | The system may have suffered a hardware fault, such as a disk drive > | failure. You may attempt to start the system anyway, or stop now and > | attempt manual recovery operations. > | > | If you choose to boot the degraded RAID, the system may start > | normally, but performance may be degraded, and a further hardware > | fault could result in permanent data loss. > | > | If you abort now, you will be provided with a recovery shell. > | Do you wish to boot the degraded RAID? [y/N]: > > [See attached screenshot] > > This interactive selection is a one time deal. It does not affect the > configuration as written to file. > > These changes involve too much code (grub, mdadm, initramfs-tools), > too many new 'features', and are not security-critical enough to be > _automatically_ published to Hardy LTS. > > That said, we do have documented process for providing Stable Release > Updates, and Backports to previous releases. Please follow the > procedures specified in: > * https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates > * https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuBackports > > This bug, "[Bug 120375] Re: cannot boot raid1 with only one disk", is > solved, and I'm un-subscribing from it. > > If you have separate or additional issues, please open new bugs. > > Thanks, > > :-Dustin > > ** Attachment added: "Screenshot.png" > http://launchpadlibrarian.net/16926424/Screenshot.png
Good work. -- 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