Comment 17 for bug 392510

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Giuseppe Iuculano (giuseppe-iuculano) wrote : Re: [Bug 392510] Re: Dual-boot install using mdadm root fails to boot

Tormod Volden ha scritto:
> I am not happy with this solution. What if I have / on one disk /dev/sdc
> and /home on dmraid on two other disks /dev/sda and /dev/sdb? I think my
> motherboard and BIOS would allow this. I would sure want /dev/sdaX and
> /dev/sdbX to be hidden by the -Z flag.

if /dev/sdaX and /dev/sdbX aren't part of a dmraid array kernel will not remove
them.

>
> What I think should be done instead:
> 1) make sure update-initramfs is triggered on dmraid package removal

It is already triggered:
http://git.debian.org/?p=users/derevko-guest/dmraid.git;a=blob;f=debian/dmraid.postrm

> 2) add for instance a boot option "nodmraid" which can be probed for in dmraid-activate

And how this should fix this issue?

Cheers,
Giuseppe