I've done some deep investigation of this issue, many thanks to xor for
the feedback. It is 100% reproducible by degrading a RAID1 array on a VM
and simply rebooting. Booting with 'quiet' removed, however, changes the
race, and so, it doesn't manifest.
I believe the problem is that wait-for-root d
rootdelay=100 => Same messages as without it
rootwait => Also the same
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Title:
Fresh natty install on raid1 does not boot, drops to initramfs she
I saw this once in ISO testing but was unable to reproduce, looks like
xor has a system that is far more reliably producing this, so must be a
race between md and the mount of the root fs
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Status: New => Confirmed
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SpamapS on IRC figured out that the messages which are hidden by the
screen clearing of BusyBox are shown on a different terminal which can
be accessed with ALT+F7.
A picture of them is attached.
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Importance: Undecided => Critical
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Fresh natty install on raid1 does not boot, drops to initramfs shell
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Notice that I also tried "rootdelay=100" and "roowait" as kernel
parameters, both do not help. In fact it does seem to ignore them, there
is no visible delay before it drops to shell.
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