Hi:
today I want to install RHEL 9.3 with mdadm software raid1 "/boot"
partition to a server. installation failed with message "failed to
write boot loader configuration".
I switched to console and "dmesg" showed a lot of errors about "rtc
write failed with error -22". I checked the system time and found
someone set the server to year "2223". I correct the time to year
"2024" and reinstall RHEL 9.3 with the same disk layout (eg: I didn't
recreate mdadm raid since it will need extra steps). and again
installation failed with the same error message.
I was curious so I checked what happened. I found md-uuid string is
reversed from "/dev/disk/by-id" and mdadm itself. Below are some
strange results. Maybe the issue is not important and people in the
far future will fix it someday if we don't kill the bug. Just share
the experience.
>ls -la /dev/disk/by-id | grep md-uuid
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Mar 20 03:10
md-uuid-a4e266d2:68ae1848:1a6d6a71:a419ebdb -> ../../md127
>mdadm --examine --scan
ARRAY /dev/md/boot metadata=1.2
UUID=d266e2a4:4818ae68:716a6d1a:dbeb19a4
name=localhost.localdomain:boot
>mdadm -E /dev/sda2 (result show created at year 2223)
/dev/sda2:
Magic : a92b4efc
Version : 1.2
Feature Map : 0x1
Array UUID : d266e2a4:4818ae68:716a6d1a:dbeb19a4
Name : localhost.localdomain:boot (local to host
localhost.localdomain)
Creation Time : Fri Nov 14 07:32:22 2223
Raid Level : raid1
Raid Devices : 5
Avail Dev Size : 1048576 sectors (512.00 MiB 536.87 MB)
Array Size : 524288 KiB (512.00 MiB 536.87 MB)
Data Offset : 2048 sectors
Super Offset : 8 sectors
Unused Space : before=1968 sectors, after=0 sectors
State : clean
Device UUID : 4007990e:44762c79:efab3543:04a55382
Internal Bitmap : 8 sectors from superblock
Update Time : Wed Mar 20 03:07:49 2024
Bad Block Log : 512 entries available at offset 16 sectors
Checksum : 87a9793f - correct
Events : 38
Device Role : Active device 3
Array State : AAAAA ('A' == active, '.' == missing, 'R' == replacing)
>mdadm --details /dev/md127 (result show created at year 2106 which is not correct)
/dev/md127:
Version : 1.2
Creation Time : Sun Feb 7 06:28:15 2106
Raid Level : raid1
Array Size : 524288 (512.00 MiB 536.87 MB)
Used Dev Size : 524288 (512.00 MiB 536.87 MB)
Raid Devices : 5
Total Devices : 5
Persistence : Superblock is persistent
Intent Bitmap : Internal
Update Time : Wed Mar 20 03:07:49 2024
State : clean
Active Devices : 5
Working Devices : 5
Failed Devices : 0
Spare Devices : 0
Consistency Policy : bitmap
Number Major Minor RaidDevice State
0 8 50 0 active sync /dev/sdd2
1 8 18 1 active sync /dev/sdb2
2 8 34 2 active sync /dev/sdc2
3 8 2 3 active sync /dev/sda2
4 8 66 4 active sync /dev/sde2
