https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=458593 User cthiel@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=458593#c435778 Summary: system doesn't boot with root on md raid1 Product: openSUSE 11.1 Version: Final Platform: Other OS/Version: Other Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Basesystem AssignedTo: mmarek@novell.com ReportedBy: cthiel@novell.com QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: --- Pasting from E-Mail:
Last night I installed 11.1 on a servr of mine (located in a remote datacenter), where I usually use md raid1 on /dev/sda and /dev/sdb as /. Unfortuantely, the server didn't boot after the first stage installation. (I had booted it with kexec from the running 11.0.)
Now, Hetzner (the datacenter folks) have a nice rescue system and a way to reset your server, so I was able to log in and look around. By looking at bugzilla, I figured, that mdadm wasn't working the way it should have been working. A quick diff of mdadm in STABLE vs. the 11.1 version of mdadm showed this diff:
+Fri Dec 5 10:21:10 CET 2008 - hare@suse.de + +- Wait for udev to settle before continuing (bnc#435778) + +------------------------------------------------------------------- +Fri Dec 5 06:18:44 CET 2008 - nfbrown@suse.de + +- boot.md : an exit status of '2' from "mdadm --assemble" + should not be seen as failure by boot.md. + It happens if one or more arrays is already + assembled. + (bnc#456028) + +-------------------------------------------------------------------
I updated mdadm, rebuilt the initrd and rebootet the server -- now it boots just fine!
So, the question come down to: Shouldn't we make sure to release an update of mdadm to 11.1?
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