I have a two-disk mdadm RAID1 array. One of the disks has died so the array is in a degraded state. It's been like this for a while and while I didn't mind getting the occasional email through, recently mdadm had an update that now forces the boot process to halt in an interactive mode where I have to press y to continue or it falls to busybox. Very dull.

I'd like to keep the remaining data but I'd like the drive not to be mdadm-reliant any more. Is there a quick way to delete toe MD superblocks and mount it directly without losing data?