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 52CD91382C5 for ; Mon, 15 Feb 2021 20:17:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4FB99E0903; Mon, 15 Feb 2021 20:17:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from isengard.kernelpanic.ch (isengard.kernelpanic.ch [161.97.73.235]) (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 B801EE08EF for ; Mon, 15 Feb 2021 20:17:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from www.kernelpanic.ch (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (authenticated bits=0) by isengard.kernelpanic.ch (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTPA id 11FKHn6k031437 for ; Mon, 15 Feb 2021 21:17:51 +0100 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 Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2021 21:17:49 +0100 From: Oli Schmidt To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo system suddenly failed to boot. In-Reply-To: References: User-Agent: Roundcube Webmail/1.4.9 Message-ID: X-Sender: oli@kernelpanic.ch Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Archives-Salt: 62fcd8d1-60c5-4ce6-9055-4e2f7b2aec7c X-Archives-Hash: 2918708bdb60a1ec8067a08c6bbd373a 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 : >> >> 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. >> > >> > >>