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

[gevisz]

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.
> >
> >
>