Bug#814036: initramfs-tools: mdadm doesn't assemble disk

[Mader, Alexander]

Am 27.02.2016 um 10:01 schrieb Mader, Alexander:
> On Fri, 26 Feb 2016 23:45:01 +0100 "Mader, Alexander" wrote:
>> On Mon, 22 Feb 2016 18:19:58 +0000 Chris Boot wrote:
>>> Adding "rootdelay=15" to the kernel command-line probably fixes this
>>> (can't test as we can't just reboot this production server at will) but
>>> this isn't a nice fix.
>> I just tried "rootdelay=15" as well as "rootdelay=30" to no avail. For
>> this I entered the extended boot options in GRUB2, used "e" to edit the
>> parameter section, and inserted as second line the rootdelay. Should I
>> rather edit the /etc/default/grub?
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I just tried booting with /etc/default/grub edited, but it does not
> help; presumably because root is not my problem but home. Is there
> something similar for other partitions but root? As you might have
> noticed, I am quiet flexible with reboot experiments for testing something.
> 
> The entries in /etc/default/grub:
> 
> 8< ----------------------------------------------------------------- >8
> GRUB_DEFAULT=0
> GRUB_TIMEOUT=5
> GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=`lsb_release -i -s 2> /dev/null || echo Debian`
> GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet"
> GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="rootdelay=15"
> 8< ----------------------------------------------------------------- >8
> 
> After update-grub ...

Am 10.03.2016 um 15:57 schrieb Samuel Thibault:
> Samuel Thibault, on Thu 10 Mar 2016 14:45:20 +0100, wrote:
>> Dmitry Smirnov, on Mon 29 Feb 2016 18:46:10 +1100, wrote:
>>> I tried adding "rootdelay=4" to kernel boot parameters but it did
not help.
>>
>> I had tried rootdelay=15, it didn't help me either.
>
> Ok, I had to increase that to 45 seconds to get it working automatically.

Hello,

I tried that 45s delay as well using the GRUB edit and it just added a
long delay before starting anything, but the manual assembly of md0 was
still necessary.

Best regards, Alexander.