Should disks in a raid really prevent booting?

[Paul Cartwright]

On 03/25/2015 07:26 AM, Tom Horsley wrote:
> I was apparently missing something like the raid1 kernel
> module in the initramfs in my fedora 21 partition, but
> I disabled the mdmonitor service and removed the raid
> filesystem from the /etc/fstab, yet the system still
> could not boot. It spent several minutes trying to recognize
> the raided disks then went into the dracut shell.
>
> Should it really be utterly impossible to boot a system
> that merely has raided disks connected to it which no
> one is trying to reference? Should I make a kernel bug
> for this?
If there is an entry in /etc/fstab for ANY UUID that it can't find, it
won't boot... I have run into that problem MANY times...
I have to go in & comment out all entries except / and /home ( assuming
it can find them), then it boots..

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Paul Cartwright
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