Boot System Rescue CD and check it out. http://www.sysresccd.org It will give you all the tools you need to investigate without booting in to the live filesystem. Kelly > Thu Mar 21 2013 09:35:53 AM CDT from "Yaron" <tclug at freakzilla.com> >Subject: Re: [tclug-list] Software RAID issues... > > fstab has defaults. But this is well before mounting happens. If I let it > boot with the "degraded" raid, THEN it has a problem mounting, but that's > not a problem, really. The problem is that when mdadm starts assembling > the RAID (I think) it fails and drops me into busybox. > > This happens right at the top of the kernel boot, so there's really no > logging or any useful error reporting going on. > > > On Thu, 21 Mar 2013, gregrwm wrote: > > >>what's in fstab? errors=remount-ro? errors=continue? nobootwait? >> >> tho i confess i dunno if anything in fstab actually affects softraid error >> response. i can tell you that interpretation of certain fstab options >> varies considerably amongst distros and releases.. >> >> >> >> >> > -- > > (, 0 bytes) [View| Download] > > > > > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20130321/e63f253d/attachment-0001.html> -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20130321/e63f253d/attachment-0001.ksh>