Comment 59 for bug 120375

I have been fighting installing a RAID setup with 8.04 + GRUB for about 20 hours. My old setup used a CF card mounted as /boot but I can't get that to work with some newer hardware and with grub and 8.04. This worked fine under 6.x and 7.x... So I give up and set up a md RAID 1 partition as ext2 as /boot at the start of my disk, I get grub installed on both drives no problem and now I hit this. It took a long time to figure out what was going on as I thought it was hanging because the scripts take so long to time out... it needs to say something like "waiting for root device to spin up" if it hits the part of the script looking for a removable root device so you can quickly identify what is going on.

I find it amazing that it has been going for a full year. The issue I have is that I am using RAID and redundant disks for my boot/root partition so that I can be hardware agnostic and not have to worry about getting the system up and going if I think my hardware RAID card is flaking out. If I can't boot the thing with a failed disk without having to google up the commands to get the array going it's just about worthless.

If someone participating in this bug has a good description of how to get it to work automatically with 8.04 I would really appreciate it if they could post either the modified initramfs scripts or whatever it takes to get it working.