Should disks in a raid really prevent booting?

[poma]

On 25.03.2015 12:26, 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?
> 

See if this is relevant:

dracut, degraded md arrays, resume and systemd.
http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-initramfs/msg03979.html

dracut: fix various issues with newly degraded md arrays
http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-initramfs/msg03990.html

mdraid fixes #58
https://github.com/haraldh/dracut/pull/58/files