Comment 23 for bug 120375

Hi,

I have been following this post for a couple of weeks and trying to solve this problem as a background job for around a month. So far I have tried many things to overcome this problem and the comment by Plnt seemed to be the most promising.

I tried issuing the --assemble --scan from the BusyBox shell as suggested with no luck, the system still wouldn't boot even though I was able to activate my degraded RAID sets in BusyBox.

I found the same problem when modifying the udev rules. Often the arrays would start degraded even when all the disks were available. I think the solution to this problem lies in modifying the udev rules, maybe we could add some code after the --no-degraded start attempt to start the arrays degraded if they haven't already started.

In my view this is a major problem, there is no point using a RAID1 root disk if you can't boot from a single disk if it's mirror fails.

Cheers,
Ken