Bug#485989: I can reproduce this

[martin f krafft]

also sprach Russell Coker <russell at coker.com.au> [2008.07.02.1047 +0200]:
> The above is a diff between two versions of mdadm.conf.  The presence 
> of "metadata=1" results in mkinitramfs producing an image that won't boot.

Why won't it boot? Is /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf in the initramfs
correct? Does /conf/md.conf look alright?

Does it boot if you add break=mount to the kernel command line and
remove the metadata=1 from /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf in the initramfs
before exiting the shell to continue?

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