On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 01:28:01AM +0000, James Harper wrote:
And just to recap, rebooting a RAID comprising of /dev/sd[abcd]3, when /dev/sda3 is being rebuilt, results in a boot that drops into the initramfs shell because it appears that mdadm tries to add /dev/sda3 first then rejects the other 3 disks because they say /dev/sda3 is inconsistent (which it is).
maybe try swapping sda and sdb so sda3 is good and sdb3 is inconsistent. this may allow the system to boot properly and the raid resync to proceed. BTW don't forget to make sure your system can boot with the drives swapped around. this may mean installing grub into the MBR on all drives or just changing the BIOS setting (or use the BIOS boot menu) to boot off the drive that used to be sda but is now sdb. craig -- craig sanders <cas@taz.net.au> BOFH excuse #11: magnetic interference from money/credit cards