Bug#582177: initramfs-tools: fails to load ram... /proc/mdstat

[Michael Prokop]

* Cropper, C. A. <cropper at acm.org> [Mon Jun 07, 2010 at 09:27:28 -0400]:

> >Can you please provide output of "cat /proc/mdstat" of
> >the running linux system?

> root at loomis:/# cat /proc/mdstat 
> Personalities : [raid1] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] 
> md1 : active raid6 sdg4[0] sde4[5](S) sdf4[4] sdb4[3] sdd4[2] sdc4[1]
>       5851753728 blocks level 6, 256k chunk, algorithm 2 [5/5] [UUUUU]

> md0 : active raid1 sdb2[0] sdd2[2](S) sde2[3](S) sdf2[4](S) sdg2[5](S) sdc2[1]
>       249792 blocks [2/2] [UU]

> unused devices: <none>

Looks ok. /dev/sda is the device you're booting from?

What could be worth a try (unless grub devs show up):

* try initramfs-tools >= 0.95.1
* try removing all devices except one disk from the raid1 array
  and try booting from the single disk then

regards,
-mika-
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