Bug#594472: grub-pc: scary messages and very long boot time after upgrade

[Toni Mueller]

Hi,

On Sun, 29.08.2010 at 07:18:36 +0200, Dh H <dhh4711 at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Downgrading MDADM helped for me, but not completely.
> The behaviour at the beginning is still the same, such that it does
> not find the volume-group.
> But now I am dropped into a shell instead of getting these
> /sys/devices/virtual/block/mdX
> messages.

IOW, you need to manually intervene to get the machine to actually
boot, but the whole process is now faster than waiting until the
system "figures it out" on it's own, right?

> In that shell I can use lvm to bring the vg up and activate the lvs.
> from that point on booting works fine.
> 
> Toni, I used this link to get mdadm for downgrade:
> http://snapshot.debian.org/package/mdadm/3.1.1-1/

Thank you! That was exactly what I was looking for.


Kind regards,
--Toni++