OpenSUSE 12.2 M3 : Slow boot, RAID array (mdadm) not recognized

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Hi,

I have performed a fresh install of 12.2 M3 , with the following setup:

/ -> /dev/sda1 , ext4
/mnt/md -> /dev/md0 RAID 10 array, ext4

At boot the RAID array is not recognized ; I see some error messages when udev tries to create the array using

mdadm --incremental /dev/sdb1

Also the boot is delayed for a long time

12.572749] md/raid10:md0: active with 4 out of 4 devices
12.572777] md0: detected capacity change from 0 to 620806275072
12.824973] md0: unknown partition table
97.466489] vboxdrv: Found 4 processor cores.

Mounting the partition after the boot sequence is complete works like a charm.

I have also found a Ubuntu launchpad reference at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mdadm/+bug/551719 which seems to be about the same problem, but I’m not sure.

Did anyone run into this or has any ideas on how to solve this?

Thanks,

Robert

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(Not sure where the edit button is so posting as a reply)

The actual error message is

udevd [170]: failed to execute /sbin/mdadm: '/sbin/mdadm --incremental /dev/sdb1 ’ : No such file or directory

and it’s repeated four times - once for each partition in the raid array.

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For tracking, posted https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=722053