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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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Nevertheless, I was able to boot from a flash drive with a live Gentoo |
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CD and chroot into the Gentoo system partition of my IDE drive. |
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So, I formatted a new SATA drive according to instructions given in |
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Gentoo AMD64 Handbook, rsynced the corresponding IDE system partition |
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into it by the following command: |
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rsync -qaHAXS source_dir target_dir |
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made the necessary changes to the corresponding fstab file, chrooted |
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into the new system SATA partition, recompiled grub and installed it |
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on the new disk. |
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After all that I was able to boot the Gentoo system from the new |
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partition. However, the booting process went as slow as hell, and at |
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the end Xorg server failed to start. |
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My next guess was that something went wrong with the last kernel I |
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used to boot. So, I tried to boot using the previous kernel. |
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However, this time the booting failed with almost the same messages as above: |
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ata5.03: failed to resume link (SStatus 0 SControl 0) |
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ata5.03: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 0) |
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ata5.03: hard resetting link |
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ata6.04: failed to resume link (SStatus 0 SControl 0) |
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(Now, my new Gentoo system partition is on /dev/sdb2.) |
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Shall I try to do something to fix it before reinstalling Gentoo anew? |
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For example, I thought of booting with a live Gentoo flash drive, |
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chrooting into the new system partition and recompiling @system. |
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However, if it is not some package that is corrupted, it may be a waste of time. |
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Or, maybe, @system may be narrowed to just a few packages needed at boot time? |
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Shall I try to recreate initramfs, what in my case means re-emerging |
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gentoo-kernel package? |
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What do you think? |
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P.S. Nevertheless, I still can successfully boot my very old legacy |
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system from another partition of my IDE drive. |
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