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

[Nolodude]

So yeah, a three-year old bug cut me off from my headless server today.
Awesome.

The default behaviour to require actual user interaction in case of
degraded RAID array is just ... wrong. It's SO MUCH MORE important to
get the system up and running so we can diagnose and fix the problems.
You can't fix RAID problems in initframs, and you also can't add the
option "bootdegraded=true" to Grub in initframs.

Could somebody please fix this.

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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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