[Bug 33649] Re: root raid installs have bad grub config

[Dustin Kirkland]

On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 7:58 AM, tricky1 <tricky1 at sms.at> wrote:
> a) Even if smart status is not perfect it is a good idea to warn user
> during boot in case of errors detected.

I still don't see this as practical, as it would necessitate moving
smartctl (and dependent .so's) into the initramfs.  But if you have a
working patch, I'll gladly look at it.

> b) What I tried to suggest is not a visible timer (good idea but not
> urgent), but the possibility that during _installation_ one can specify
> if automatic degraded booting will ever occur. (default timer=0 -> no
> automatism)

This is handled by the patches for Bug #120375.  With that code, you
are able to provide on the kernel boot parameters one of:
 * bootdegraded=true
 * bootdegraded=false

The default is 'false'.  The timer is fixed at 30 seconds, which will
be spent in 0.1 second intervals, looking for new devices that might
have shown up, or a clean RAID device.

:-Dustin

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root raid installs have bad grub config
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