They get MOUNTED after the OS boots. I think mdadm tries to start the array up well before that, for some reason it fails and dumps me into busybox. I'm not entirely sure what exactly is going on, really, RAID's never been my thing. On Thu, 21 Mar 2013, Mike Miller wrote: > But if it fails after the OS is done booting, why does it dump you into > busybox? I think that happened to me only when my updated kernel was not > being found because it had been written to the wrong partition. That > shouldn't happen in a brand-new setup, though. Under what conditions does > busybox make an appearance? > > Mike > > > On Thu, 21 Mar 2013, Yaron wrote: > >> I'm not using a partition table on the RAID device at all, but that's moot >> since I'm not booting off it. It gets mounted well after the OS is done >> booting... but it makes the boot process hang for random reasons. >> >> On Thu, 21 Mar 2013, Mike Miller wrote: >> >>> On Wed, 20 Mar 2013, Yaron wrote: >>> >>>> Ok, I've been running a software RAID5 on one of my older systems for a >>>> while. Almost every time I reboot, it claims the RAID is degraded and >>>> dumps me into busybox, where all I can really do is exit and HOME it'll >>>> see the drives next time I reboot. This is solved by rebooting anywhere >>>> from 2 to 20 times. >>>> >>>> I figured it was this system or these harddrives or this SATA controller >>>> or... whatever. But I just set up a brand new RAID array on a brand new >>>> machine using brand-new drives and a brand-new array, etc, etc. Same >>>> exact issue. >>>> >>>> Anyone have ANY idea if this is ME doing something wrong, or what? >>> >>> >>> I don't really know anything except that the tricky part of making my RAID >>> 1 work was figuring out how the boot partition is supposed to be set up. I >>> didn't get that right and then after a kernel update it wouldn't reboot >>> unless I went back to the earlier kernel. That might be irrelevant, but >>> judging from things I was reading on web forums and advice I was getting, >>> this is a tricky issue. With larger drives (more than 2.2 TB) we have to >>> use GPT instead of MBR and then all kinds of little annoyances come along. >>> Are you using GPT? >>> >>> Mike >>> _______________________________________________ >>> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >>> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >>> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> _______________________________________________ >> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > --