However, if I remove the first disk (vda), the system drops to the initramfs telling me the disk could not be found. If I remove the second disk (after adding the first disk back), I'm told about the 'bootdegraded=true' option.
This ends up being a major usability issue as well, because there is no grub boot menu since this was the only operating system installed. I looked in /etc/default/grub and only saw:
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"
I believe this needs bootdegraded=true to work. I'll try to debug later, but it clearly doesn't work.
Binary package hint: mdadm
In testing raid1 according to http:// testcases. qa.ubuntu. com/Install/ ServerRAID1, the system installed fine and both disks show up in /proc/mdstat. I installed using my procedure found in https:/ /bugs.launchpad .net/ubuntu/ +source/ grub2/+ bug/457687/ comments/ 6. I anwered 'yes' to booting in degraded mode. I noticed during install the grub-install did reference both /dev/vda and /dev/vdb
However, if I remove the first disk (vda), the system drops to the initramfs telling me the disk could not be found. If I remove the second disk (after adding the first disk back), I'm told about the 'bootdegraded=true' option.
This ends up being a major usability issue as well, because there is no grub boot menu since this was the only operating system installed. I looked in /etc/default/grub and only saw: LINUX_DEFAULT= "quiet splash"
GRUB_CMDLINE_
I believe this needs bootdegraded=true to work. I'll try to debug later, but it clearly doesn't work.