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

[Andrew Nagel]

The message is on the second line visible on the screenshot.  Are you
testing this with 1 disk of a 3 disk raid5?  I am able to reproduce
reliably in a vmware fusion instance, if one of three raid discs is
attached the system will not boot, drops into intramfs if you say "N" to
start degraded and if you say "Y" it tries and fails.

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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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