Should disks in a raid really prevent booting?

[Chris Murphy]

On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 5:26 AM, Tom Horsley <horsley1953 at gmail.com> 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.

There should be a reference to an automatically generated
rdsosreport.txt for you to post.

If not, then post the output from journalctl -b -l -o short-monotonic


>
> 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?

No. And no, seems premature. I didn't have to make a special initramfs
or even create mdadm.conf in order for a post-install created raid1 to
be picked up and activated automatically at boot. It's only activated,
not mounted, and the boot didn't fail. So without more information
it's difficult to help.


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Chris Murphy