Ubuntu
initramfs-tools package

  1. Bug #278176
  2. Comment #9

Comment 9 for bug 278176

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Michael Hipp (michael-hipp) wrote : Re: Intrepid ubuntu server won't boot RAID1

Well, I seemed to have solved the issue, sort of.

Turns out (going from a clue given by the drop to BusyBox) I added rootdelay=40 to my grub kernel line. It now boots reliably.

So my kernel line in /boot/grub/menu.lst now looks something like this:

kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27-4-server root=UUID=401eb0e1-f624-4d86-a1a4-47374ba9a556 rootdelay=40 ro quiet splash

I determined this magic number by trial and error. It worked with 60; 30 wasn't enough. I think I'll raise it to a yet much higher number just to make sure it will always boot when I'm not here to babysit.

But this strikes me as a hack. Is there something bad going on that it should take so very long to gain access to a disk when, in fact, it is already reading from the disk (since grub is running)?