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

[JazZ]

I am very shocked. I just had a disc (between RAID 5) which crashes, and
you are saying me, that it is not possible to boot and to access data ?
During the install (ubuntu 13.10), I have selected boot degraded, and
the system does not boot. Black screen, no error message, no shell
command after 20 minutes, and no initramfs. I can't do anything. I don't
understand this logic to say that it is preferable to not boot in order
to prevent data loss it it is not possible to mount the system. So my
data is protected, but I can access to it !

Shameful for a bug declared 1.5 years ago, and for a so critical bug ! 
Why have you not desactivated the ubuntu raid install since the bug is not corrected ? 

The only chance I have is to have preserved my older server and than a
part of my data.

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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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