Comment 4 for bug 776908

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pklaus (pklaus) wrote : Re: mdadm RAID 1 fails to mount

There has been a post in the German Ubuntu users forum about this problem too: <http://forum.ubuntuusers.de/topic/home-auf-raid-wird-beim-systemstart-nicht-gemo/>

When I start up my Ubuntu computer, I get this message that it could not mount all partitions as defined in `/etc/fstab`. I the press [m] (for a terminal instead of s:skip) and run the command `mount -a`. This works fine and mount all entries from fstab successfully. I then press [Ctrl]-[d] to exit the recovery terminal and the startup continues without further problems.

(I only have /etc/home on the /dev/md_d0 but I think it would be difficult to solve this on a headless system.)

As far as I know, the main difference between `mount -a` and `mountall` (used by upstart) is that the latter publishes status output via dbus.

(I also experienced the renaming from `/dev/md0` to `/dev/md_d0` but this is irrelevant for me as I use the UUID to mount the partition in /etc/fstab.)