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

[ceg]

This is completely unbelievable. Somebody not competent enough broke the
debian raid setup for ubuntu years ago, and the issues has still not
been resolved?

Man, fix up ubuntu mdadm to issue proper notifications (bug #535417).
Get rid of that bogus boot_degraded question (bug #539597), and finally
implement a reliable raid.

@simon: good job!  Maybe the notes about the required dependencies in
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReliableRaid are of interst to you.

What a mistake to assume improvements in ubuntu raid and retry. Instead,
use a debian installation.

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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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