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mdadm package

  1. Bug #290885
  2. Comment #61

Comment 61 for bug 290885

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Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland) wrote : Re: [Bug 290885] Re: SRU: Backport of Boot Degraded RAID functionality from Intrepid to Hardy

On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Davias <email address hidden> wrote:
> Dustin, I have been following this from the beginning, but I'm still
> puzzled on the way to upgrade my 7.10 AMD64 desktop, working OK with the
> patch on 2 sata HD.
>
> I would like to:
> 1) disconnect 1 HD & boot degraded
> 2) update to 8.04 via network
> 3) update to 8,10
> 4) connect the second HD and sync the array
>
> but... upgrading will require a reboot... will I be able to boot in 8.04
> and do the next upgrade to 8.10?

(1) won't succeed until you have the fixes that have been added to
Hardy and Intrepid. Booting degraded is what's broken in <Hardy, and
fixed thereafter.

I recommend that you backup your most important data, and upgrade to
8.04, reboot, upgrade to 8.10, reboot, and then grub install to your
RAID device.

:-Dustin