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

[Krzysztof]

I'm  experience the same issue, having 2 disk in soft RAID when one fails trying replace it and booting into normal mode i'm unable to input 'y' after question of booting into degraded mode (strange enough i've boot degraded set to true!)
But i'm able to boot to system and rebuild raid when choice-ing recovery mode on working drive (remains of my degraded array)

Then i'm able to rebuild array and start system correctly... But it
requires time and during rebuild other services are unaccesible - in
version 10.04 i was able to boot into normal mode with degraded
partition and rebuild RAID on working system

Regards

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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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