Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 3.7.1 SATA errors

On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 10:49:46PM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> On 23/12/12 21:23, felix@×××××××.com wrote:
> > A few weeks ago I had a scare when a reboot paniced the kernel with a
> > complaint that it could not find the root device (/dev/sde), and
> > further reboots couldn't even see the USB keyboard.  Leavng the
> > system powered off overnight "fixed" the problem and the system has
> > been working fine ever since.
>
> Do a memtest first.  emerge sys-apps/memtest86+ and then add an entry
> for it in Grub:
>
>    title=Memtest86+
>    root (hd0,0) # <- adapt this to your partition
>    kernel /boot/memtest86plus/memtest.bin
>
> Then boot that entry and see if you get any errors in the first 5
> minutes or so.

Starting the emerge etc.  But why would this be a memory problem when
it is so clearly 3.6 vs 3.7?

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