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ср, 17 февр. 2021 г. в 04:54, Edward <edwardmgibson01@×××××.com>: |
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> On 2/15/21 9:53 AM, gevisz wrote: |
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> > Yesterday, my relatively new install of Gentoo failed to boot with the |
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> > following repeated messages: |
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> > ata5.04: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 0) |
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> > ata5.04: hard resetting link |
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> > ata5.04: failed to resume link (SStatus 0 Scontrol 0) |
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> > My first thought was that something is wrong with my old IDE (ATA) |
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> > drive. (The Gentoo system partition was on /dev/sda5.) |
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> What motherboard model is this? |
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It is a good question. My motherboard is Gigabyte Ultra Durable GA-MA790FXT-UD5P |
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and I had problems with it from the very beginning in the sense that it is |
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quite often doesn't see my SATA disks on the first boot (though, on the second |
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reboot it usually finds them). It is also quite often that it stops booting |
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the legacy operating system and automatically reboots before showing |
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a login screen. |
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I bought it somewhere in 2006 together with a Gigabyte S-series GA-MA69GM-S2H |
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motherboard, which I have been intensively using every day since then and never |
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had any problem. |
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In contrast, the Ultra Durable one has been used very rarely and for |
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quite short periods of time. |
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So, I do not expect it to wear off by now. |
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> Probably BIOS disk controller setting needs to be set to either SATA AHCI or something else? |
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Well, I will look into but the problem is that it worked previously |
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with the same BIOS settings. |
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Below is an account of what I have done so far. |
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First of all, I copied the system partition from my ATA to the SATA |
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drive, updated the system, |
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recompiled @system, openrc and gentoo-kernel, which unfortunately had |
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no effect on the booting problem. |
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At this stage, I started to seriously consider the suggestions above |
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that it may be a hardware problem. |
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So, I returned to the initial ATA system partition, updated the system |
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there, switched off swap (in fstab), |
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reinstalled grub on this disk and tried to boot from it. To my great |
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surprise it failed to boot again |
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complaining about links to two my SATA drives that it was not supposed |
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to use at all! |
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Of course, in this case, I have not reinstalled gentoo-kernel. So, may |
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be, the links to my SATA drives |
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are in the initramfs that still contains links to one of the other |
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SATA drive. (Its swap was there.) |
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However, I used another SATA drive to try the system from there. |
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And the legacy operating system has absolutely no problem starting |
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from the ATA drive now. |
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