From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 760F81381F3 for ; Sun, 23 Dec 2012 21:02:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A51B321C057; Sun, 23 Dec 2012 21:02:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from crowfix.com (li35-165.members.linode.com [72.14.176.165]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7389721C02D for ; Sun, 23 Dec 2012 21:00:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 12236 invoked from network); 23 Dec 2012 21:00:56 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO df.crowfix.com) (10.130.13.2) by 10.130.13.1 with SMTP; 23 Dec 2012 21:00:56 -0000 Received: (qmail 19083 invoked by uid 1000); 23 Dec 2012 21:00:46 -0000 Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2012 13:00:46 -0800 From: felix@crowfix.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 3.7.1 SATA errors Message-ID: <20121223210046.GE5230@crowfix.com> References: <20121223192335.GC5230@crowfix.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Archives-Salt: fc9f9df8-0b6d-4bce-a3bf-a40bbd344c52 X-Archives-Hash: 618b8b27adc3d3d3b5f3c44cff0c5382 On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 10:49:46PM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 23/12/12 21:23, felix@crowfix.com wrote: > > A few weeks ago I had a scare when a reboot paniced the kernel with a > > complaint that it could not find the root device (/dev/sde), and > > further reboots couldn't even see the USB keyboard. Leavng the > > system powered off overnight "fixed" the problem and the system has > > been working fine ever since. > > Do a memtest first. emerge sys-apps/memtest86+ and then add an entry > for it in Grub: > > title=Memtest86+ > root (hd0,0) # <- adapt this to your partition > kernel /boot/memtest86plus/memtest.bin > > Then boot that entry and see if you get any errors in the first 5 > minutes or so. Starting the emerge etc. But why would this be a memory problem when it is so clearly 3.6 vs 3.7? -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman & rocket surgeon / felix@crowfix.com GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out of room o