Clint the issue is that it does this regardless of whether the device is a boot device or not and this makes the system unbootable if you have 1 disk from a RAID 5 array attached to it.
1. Set boot degraded to false, result: you get a prompt asking if you want to try boot degraded
1.a Answer no, it drops you into the debug shell
1.b Answer yes, assemble degraded fails, it drops you into a the debug shell
2. Set boot degraded to true, result system tried to attach the degraded array, assemble fails, system drops into the debug shell.
Clint the issue is that it does this regardless of whether the device is a boot device or not and this makes the system unbootable if you have 1 disk from a RAID 5 array attached to it.
1. Set boot degraded to false, result: you get a prompt asking if you want to try boot degraded
1.a Answer no, it drops you into the debug shell
1.b Answer yes, assemble degraded fails, it drops you into a the debug shell
2. Set boot degraded to true, result system tried to attach the degraded array, assemble fails, system drops into the debug shell.