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

[michael brenden]

This is so stupid, it's just the epitome of asshole.

RAID controller cards go out ALL THE TIME.
This TAKES OUT MULTIPLE DRIVES without a doubt.

Kernel updates frequently don't work with older RAID controllers that were working perfectly for years.
Stuff breaks, particularly when it's rebooted or touched or "upgraded".
So why make this experience harder than hell?
And almost guarantee life-altering data loss?

MANY PEOPLE USE 3WARE CARDS AS JBOD CONTROLLERS AND THEN RUN SOFTWARE
RAID5.

Put all this together, add in an "upgrade" from 10.04 LTS to 12.04 along
with a 3ware 9650 SE 4LP running 4 SATA disks as JBOD that mysteriously
decides to no longer appear to linux at boot, along with a server with a
built-in nVidia that is of course incompatible with current "quiet" and
"splash" screens and practically undocumented "gfxmode=" bullshit in
too-new GRUB2, all written by rushers who could care less about
stability, and man - you REDEFINE EXTREME AGGRAVATION, because, now,
suddenly, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS itself will not boot, can not be made to
"bootdegraded=true" no matter what you say above, and has ground
everything to a halt, apparently necessitating a total system reboot, if
not 100% data loss.

Why am I using Ubuntu again?

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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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