Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo system suddenly failed to boot.

[Oli Schmidt <oli@kernelpanic.ch>]

ata5.04: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 0)
ata5.04: hard resetting link
ata5.04: failed to resume link (SStatus 0 Scontrol 0)

and

ata5.04: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 0)
ata5.04: hard resetting link
ata5.04: failed to resume link (SStatus 0 Scontrol 0)


beside all the install/reinstalls - both errors indicate the drive is 
failing OR (my best guess) the cable is bad. Replace the cable with a 
new one and try again.

Oli

On 2021-02-15 21:13, gevisz wrote:
> пн, 15 февр. 2021 г. в 20:59, Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com>:
>> 
>> 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 
>> sold
>> 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 boot 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.
>> >
>> >
>>