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

[gevisz]

пн, 15 февр. 2021 г. в 22:18, Oli Schmidt <oli@×××××××××××.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.

Thank you for the tips.

However, the same cable allows me to boot Gentoo from minimal CD and
legacy system from an old IDE drive.

As to the new SATA drive, I formatted it anew and created ext4 file system with
mkfs.ext4 --cc /dev/sdb2
which 4 times tested the partition writing and reading from it.

Moreover, after chrooting into the partition, I do all update and
emerge tasks, and it works fine.

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