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

[Mader, Alexander]

On Sat, 27 Feb 2016 10:01:21 +0100 "Mader, Alexander" <aumader at gmx.net>
wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Feb 2016 23:45:01 +0100 "Mader, Alexander" <aumader at gmx.net>
> wrote:
> > On Mon, 22 Feb 2016 18:19:58 +0000 Chris Boot <bootc at debian.org> 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?
> 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.

Hello,

I tried to trick the mount sequence by adding "_netdev" to the home
volume. As a result the boot completed but the home directory was not
available, anyway. The 1:30min pause in the boot sequence was there as well.

The change in /etc/fstab:

8< ----------------------------------------------------------------- >8
# /home was on /dev/md0 during installation
UUID=8e677927-d719-48eb-815d-d16170bdd003 /home           xfs
defaults,_netdev        0       2
8< ----------------------------------------------------------------- >8

Best regards, Alexander.