Bug#382908: [Yaird-devel] Bug#382908: boot failed on a raid1 mirror when a drive is "disconnected", but degraded mode works fine.

[Jonas Smedegaard]

On Mon, 14 Aug 2006 07:45:58 +0200 Cédric wrote:

> The initrd loops waiting indefinitely for the 2nd drive, but only
> when it is created on a fully fonctionnal mirrored root (means that
> the 2 drives of md0 are actives), and when 1 drive is physically
> disconnected (there is no probleme when the raid device is in
> degraded mode). The message is (repeated for nn=1,2,4,8,16)


> When the initrd is created (personnaly, i juste reinstall the kernel
> package to recreate it) on a degraded mirror, there is no probleme
> when a drive is missing, because at the build time, yaird finds only
> one active raid device on the mirror, and only search one
> drive/partition a the boot time, and the system boot very well.

There has been changes to the default RAID handling recently, and old
initrd images are only updated when explicitly requested. So possibly
your problem is already solved:

Could you please try rebuilding the initrd image again, while both
parts of the RAID is active (to make sure the image used has been
created from the most recent version of yaird), and test if your
described problem persist?

Reinstalling the kernel is one way to provoke an image build. A shorter
process is to only reconfigure the kernel package:

    dpkg-reconfigure linux-image-2.6.16-2-k7


Kind regards,

 - Jonas

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