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

[Lek]

Had som "holiday-fun" with my debian-server and installed the Trusty14.04 alfa (is qurious about the clouds). 
Sadly the same bug bit me, albeit on some old lazy 250G disks. my OCZ revodriveX2 is apparently still fast enough to not lose out in this racecondition. 
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mdadm/+bug/872220, 917520 seems related, 
found som excellent reading on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReliableRaid which sadly is four years old. 
Reinstalld debian 6 just to try and it has not the same behaviour = softraid on the same disks works.

My earlier experiences of RAID quirks is limited to SCSI and "real"
RAID-adapters so this was a chanse to read up on some good
documentation. And see again that "when you fix what isn't broken you
get a lot of "new" work".

Yes I'm old ;)

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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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