From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 16B411382C5 for ; Mon, 15 Feb 2021 20:14:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 91525E08FE; Mon, 15 Feb 2021 20:14:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-lf1-x129.google.com (mail-lf1-x129.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:4864:20::129]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 306B3E08F7 for ; Mon, 15 Feb 2021 20:14:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-lf1-x129.google.com with SMTP id d3so12385986lfg.10 for ; Mon, 15 Feb 2021 12:14:00 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date:message-id:subject:to :content-transfer-encoding; bh=rAAi93d8OWj1m2oFS7zhm/n+gGd7gDXn0tIwWXH3Quo=; b=CBsDPK+ooLTvHerCi4CJFn0W4PMdNOJKRz73+K0vbjEAD1G8I1rU8446JQByPBAWOe 7qFAbKn7a00lCxFfflzxwr5KGiCHQhM85CWW3RkdxBzvHpu1GRsxEVuj7lRqKGdTqTJL 7RkTVmgE2cVBO8RrxBLlA1kj2buEOPBQC+N7EzjIdfP/RQ4jRxOQLQWU/1vAz4wRNrUM j9t6+WkbBWOr3iabSL87sQ0W7wn7zl8xG5hTqETpgRBrl1elHLliJqlLHIODRC3TGyb5 BNn4u3M/dc/rcl1B627iM05FaWUz3CASEOocBBSsr24QbZlx3Db561t/9AOURHRZBbED UtSg== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date :message-id:subject:to:content-transfer-encoding; bh=rAAi93d8OWj1m2oFS7zhm/n+gGd7gDXn0tIwWXH3Quo=; b=o+dX/pA6QCmr0jsv0I36OR5XzI6E4eBgA/gV2KJVJnzCozG9LckCGgCGzciaFahbQS rMhStC9Q1aC954KOHO0TQMJFX9fzM6BgHZPurJ3ZBANHB4Hdf7QMVXrpHa/X/a8ma7k9 JZeJyowh1TqqAfPlH5a9OL9DXAeFztnqmq/3uXcJtsRWKYyMSUVQ4VsK91mrnsCD30GE gsHn3mNUhwjP0KaSYHr7wfom4HVWohT7BNSRQFHtC9d/AO9hIq20RpDMqzJ2Cf8rRwTO TEJvyKIrnCI8j+hCTj65wTqcfWfdfzBoZlXTROYIDTkq+BdPn+cWlgRDVL1Dhb4oPbMA qVsg== X-Gm-Message-State: AOAM533FG3Ig0bvRcUsvH5nwSSw5DkvNou2cxUUWfrARxaMl/e5YFH7w zT+Kq5UmfhKfT7sY4qJRPuorQSSMapt+1ObkTNfPwzpc9LM= X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABdhPJyZMTl5TKSr7m59sTEVurpKg7TL0j78/iQkjgcWozy5C3hChb6AsL8hO89KQTaMJ7ROGEBnVE4GB6dgwOgLpbo= X-Received: by 2002:ac2:4114:: with SMTP id b20mr9697561lfi.180.1613420038198; Mon, 15 Feb 2021 12:13:58 -0800 (PST) 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 X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 References: In-Reply-To: From: gevisz Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2021 22:13:39 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo system suddenly failed to boot. To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: dbb8068e-1a1e-4cc2-8465-abc8274701ae X-Archives-Hash: 3caf545ea52718374002c6b1879e2c6f =D0=BF=D0=BD, 15 =D1=84=D0=B5=D0=B2=D1=80. 2021 =D0=B3. =D0=B2 20:59, Jude = DaShiell : > > Check the date and time when you boot and if it isn't correct, you > probably have a dead battery on your motherboard. I had to replace one a > couple days ago. Fortunately the kind of battery my computer uses is sol= d > in pharmacies since blood sugar meters also use them. Legacy system shows incorrect time but I think that it is because of the dual-boot with Linux and not because of the battery issue. The date is still correct: Monday, February 15, 2021. Well, probably my best option to reinstall the system from scratch. :( > On Mon, 15 Feb 2021, gevisz wrote: > > > Yesterday, my relatively new install of Gentoo failed to boot with the > > following repeated messages: > > > > ata5.04: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 0) > > ata5.04: hard resetting link > > ata5.04: failed to resume link (SStatus 0 Scontrol 0) > > > > My first thought was that something is wrong with my old IDE (ATA) > > drive. (The Gentoo system partition was on /dev/sda5.) > > > > Nevertheless, I was able to boot from a flash drive with a live Gentoo > > CD and chroot into the Gentoo system partition of my IDE drive. > > > > So, I formatted a new SATA drive according to instructions given in > > Gentoo AMD64 Handbook, rsynced the corresponding IDE system partition > > into it by the following command: > > > > rsync -qaHAXS source_dir target_dir > > > > made the necessary changes to the corresponding fstab file, chrooted > > into the new system SATA partition, recompiled grub and installed it > > on the new disk. > > > > After all that I was able to boot the Gentoo system from the new > > partition. However, the booting process went as slow as hell, and at > > the end Xorg server failed to start. > > > > My next guess was that something went wrong with the last kernel I > > used to boot. So, I tried to boot using the previous kernel. > > > > However, this time the booting failed with almost the same messages as = above: > > > > ata5.03: failed to resume link (SStatus 0 SControl 0) > > ata5.03: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 0) > > ata5.03: hard resetting link > > ata6.04: failed to resume link (SStatus 0 SControl 0) > > > > (Now, my new Gentoo system partition is on /dev/sdb2.) > > > > Shall I try to do something to fix it before reinstalling Gentoo anew? > > > > For example, I thought of booting with a live Gentoo flash drive, > > chrooting into the new system partition and recompiling @system. > > However, if it is not some package that is corrupted, it may be a waste= of time. > > Or, maybe, @system may be narrowed to just a few packages needed at boo= t time? > > Shall I try to recreate initramfs, what in my case means re-emerging > > gentoo-kernel package? > > What do you think? > > > > P.S. Nevertheless, I still can successfully boot my very old legacy > > system from another partition of my IDE drive. > > > > >