[Bug 212755] [NEW] Initramfs does not start raid array on boot

[Chris Smart]

Public bug reported:

Greetings,

My Father's system has 3 hard drives in Linux software raid level 5, with LVM root on top.
Under Hardy x86_64 kernel 2.6.24-12-generic, this was working perfectly but subsequent updates (namely 2.6.22-14-generic and 2.6.24-15-generic) have broken this.

The problem appears to be with the initramfs, in that with the later
initramfs images the raid arrays are all stopped. As they are never
started, LVM volumes cannot be detected and the system cannot boot. The
machine sits just there.

The arrays are not dirty - booting to  2.6.24-12-generic continues to
work correctly and /proc/mdstat shows clean arrays.

I'm assuming the mdadm hook has been broken, but I haven't looked into
this any further.

Cheers,
Chris

** Affects: initramfs-tools (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Initramfs does not start raid array on boot
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