Comment 44 for bug 290885

Dustin Kirkland wrote:

> Right, or you can set the fs_passno 0, which would remove passing the
> filesystem check as a boot requirement, if this is what you want.

No, that's not what I want to do, I'd just want the system to boot (or be configured to boot) with the array in degraded mode, regardless if it's on boot partition or on another partition.

Reading your page I see this problem is already in bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mdadm/+bug/259145