[Bug 872220] Re: Fails to boot when there's problems with softraid

[Andrew Nagel]

Some more info,  for me at least, just attaching the attached disk to a
fusion instance of 11.10 makes it unbootable, the only way I have found
to get it bootable is to remove the disk.  Like I said the effect would
seem to be it is impossible to put a disc that has at some time in the
past been a part of a RAID5 array into a system even if all you want to
do is format it.

** Attachment added: "Virtual Disk 5.vmdk"
   https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mdadm/+bug/872220/+attachment/2567467/+files/Virtual%20Disk%205.vmdk

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Title:
  Fails to boot when there's problems with softraid

Status in “mdadm” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Ubuntu 11.10 has a new feature that it warns you while booting if
  there's a program with the softraid.

  It tells you that a hard disk in the softraid is missing, then asks,
  on the console:

  Continue to boot? y/N

  But it ignores all keypresses. After 5 seconds or so it then times
  out, falls to the default "N" option, and dumps you to a emergency
  bash prompt, with no indication on how to proceed.

  The feature is a good idea, but not in the current broken state.

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