Bug#485989: I can reproduce this

[martin f krafft]

also sprach Russell Coker <russell at coker.com.au> [2008.07.03.0028 +0100]:
> Does "correct" mean being with or without the metadata=1 part of the line?

Without, does it reflect your system?

> So it seems that simply running sed on the mdadm.conf file when
> preparing the initramfs would be sufficient to make things work.
> Not an ideal solution but adequate until upstream gives us
> a better solution (making mdadm accept metadata=1).

This is what I am trying to figure out: is it mdadm which fails, or
my initramfs script.

Could you boot with metadata=1 and the break=mount kernel option,
then at the prompt, edit /scripts/local-top/mdadm and add set -x at
the top, then save and run

  . scripts/functions
  . scripts/local
  mountroot

and try to figure out where the error happens?

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