[mythtv-users] HELP! I want my mythtv!

[Joseph DeGraw]

On 04/12/2014 08:22 PM, Mark Perkins wrote:
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>> DANGER - DO NOT USE UBUNTU 12.04 IF YOU HAVE ANY SOFTWARE RAID
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>> There is a race condition that randomly marks good RAID arrays as failed. This triggers an error that, due to another bug, ignores the "bootdegraded=true" kernel work-around parameter. The end result is you end up in an initramfs shell called "busybox" that is a blackhole of doom and downage.
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>> Thread: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1861516&page=5
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>> I will try disconnecting drive and see what I can do.
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>> Joseph
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> Does that apply to your situation? Firstly your RAID is genuinely stuffed and not 'good but incorrectly flagged as bad'. Secondly you are not booting from RAID but booting from a separate disk? You seem to be ending up at the same endpoint potentially but your path there would seem to be very different to me?
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Well, I think the point that did apply to my situation is that when you 
have a failing raid that is not part of the actual operating system 
(i.e. its a data array only) the operating system should still be able 
to boot with a failed raid. Not being able to boot the operating system 
puts you in a bad situation in that you have to jump thru alot more 
hoops to get things fixed.

Joseph