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

[CvB]

For what it's worth: Just had the same issue with Ubuntu 12.04:

"The mainproblem for me is that the keyboard is not working there, i can
not press "y" to say "boot it anyway"."

This is very annoying.

I can continue boot by typing "return 0" into the maintenance console.
But there is no way to keep the server automatically booting. Even
"bootdegraded=true" does not help.

This is very, very annoying.

-- 
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Foundations Bugs, which is subscribed to mdadm in Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/872220

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.

To manage notifications about this bug go to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mdadm/+bug/872220/+subscriptions