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 >