[SOLVED]Additional Raid1 arrays not started on degraded boot

[moses17]

Hi Everyone,

I have a new centos 7 install that I have been having trouble with. Usually a 2 drive Raid1 array.. your normal boot root and swap created during install. These all come up just fine in degraded mode (single drive), EXCEPT for the additional Raid1 partition I have. The system brings it up as a spare and does not automatically activate the array, its ends up marked as a spare like this..

Personalities : [raid1]
md100 : inactive sda4[1](S)
1927256320 blocks super 1.2

Where as with both drives it comes up just fine..

md100 : active raid1 sda4[2] sdc4[1]
20000000 blocks super 1.2 [2/2] [UU]

Note the size is wrong, but it doesn't seem to matter as I tried it with the full partition size too. If the array was supposed to be mounted (fstab), it drops to the service prompt. I can force it to run in degraded mode by doing #mdadm -R /dev/md100 and it starts up just fine in degraded mode. Here is my line in mdadm.conf..

ARRAY /dev/md/100 metadata=1.2 UUID=5fb266ab:8d3b4672:ff810cac:ad834674

I was initially on an older superblock 0.9.. I zeroed it out and installed a fresh 1.2 with ext4, same thing. Grub is installed on both drives (at one point I had 4 drives in a Raid1 array, same thing), and I've tried dracut with both the mdadm.conf included and not. I can't seem to figure out what is responsible for starting this array properly when a drive is missing. I updated the stock install the other day, mdadm, dracut, kernel (3.10.0-123.20.1.el7.x86_64) all had updates, but I still have the issue.

Anyone seen this before? Am I just not looking in the right place? I appreciate any advice. Thanks!

Regards,
-Moses

[moses17]

Some more info just in case anyone else has the same trouble

adding the following (use your own uuid)..

rd.md.uuid=5fb266ab:8d3b4672:ff810cac:ad834674

to the end of the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX= line in /etc/default/grub worked!

Remember to run
grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg
after you are done with the edit

Regards,
-Moses