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initramfs-tools package

Change default behavoir to boot degraded RAID

Bug #1059541 reported by RoyK
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Bug Description

A degraded RAID should be started and boot should be attempted *by default*, since jumping into busybox in case one is degraded, gives the admin very few possible actions than "exit" and debug the problem from Linux instead. Not booting degraded arrays is also a problem for new administrators, since jumping into busybox blanks the screen and in pratice stops the information flow from the system.

Can you please change this in future versions?

roy

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RoyK (roysk)
summary: - Change default behavoir to boot degrgaded RAID
+ Change default behavoir to boot degraded RAID
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RoyK (roysk)
affects: ubuntu → initramfs-tools (Ubuntu)
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RoyK (roysk) wrote :

Any comment on this one?

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RoyK (roysk) wrote :

http://paste.ubuntu.com/1276713/

Quick fix

it's prompted for during the installer, but only if you have root on raid, meaning if you don't know this, and you lose a drive, even with a RAID-6 with a spare, which is totally good, the server won't boot up because of this nonsense, and you need console access…

roy

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Normunds (Alistek) (3pm) wrote :

I agree, it is not acceptable default boot behavior.
One of reasons for using raid is because of making some system redundancy.
For non expert users such behavior leads to unbootable (e.g. crashed system) what is not we totaly expect from system with raid array.
Logic behaviour: system boots up, but with error message in GUI like "Your data is not safe bla bla..."

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in initramfs-tools (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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