ok. Thanks for the fix (Well. Almost fix) . We have been suffering from this now for three months.
In our case, we have Edgy on Software RAID which we disk cloned and use it in three other machines of the same configuration. Prior to the fix, in each cloned disk machine will take over 10 mins (same pattern. After the msg 'Mouting root file system'. screen goes blank with a blinking cursor for that 10 mins and boot resumes). I just did apt-get update mdadm in each cloned machine (which did the update-initramfs as well as expected), the machine boot time became normal for those machines. I went back to the original disk machine, installed the mdadm update, and did some app installs etc. Now did the cloning disk again to the other machines. On booting of the cloned disk machine, the boot still took more 10 mins. I did a update-initramfs -u in the cloned machine and rebooted. Now the boot speed is normal. Something is still not all right with this issue. Now, altogether cloning takes about 60 minutes more for the three machines which is such a waste of time. Do you need any more info to look into this as well? -- mdadm causes boot to hang for 4 minutes https://launchpad.net/bugs/67299 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
