ubuntu 7.10 and raid 1

[Markus Schönhaber]

Victor Sterpu wrote:

> I installed a Ubuntu 7.10 server.
> 
> Partitions are /boot, / and swap, and all of them are RAID 1.
[...]
> It boots only with both hdd's connected.
> 
> With only one hdd Ubuntu freezes in a initial stage. On the screen I can 
> read:
> 
> Starting up ...
> 
> Loading, please wait...
> 
> 
> Any idees about how can I fix this problem?

I don't know of any fix, and judging from
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/133663
there actually may be none.
But I was able to get the machine to boot with only one of the disks by
waiting till the prompt from BusyBox appears (may take a couple of
minutes), which should look like

BusyBox v<blubber>
Enter 'help' for <blubber>

(initramfs)

Then entering the following commands (History und <TAB>-completion are
available):

(initramfs) mdadm --assemble /dev/md0
mdadm: CREATE user root not found
mdadm: CREATE group disk not found
mdadm: /dev/md0 has been started with 1 drive (out of 2).
(initramfs) mdadm --assemble /dev/md1
<blubber (s. o.)>
(initramfs) mount -t ext3 /dev/md1 /root
(initramfs) [Ctrl+D]

On this machine /dev/md0 contains the boot partition, /dev/md1 contains
the root partition (ext3 fs). You'll have to adjust to your setup.

Regards
  mks