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From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: 3.7.1 SATA errors
Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2012 20:51:57
Message-Id: kb7qpg$on1$1@ger.gmane.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] 3.7.1 SATA errors by felix@crowfix.com
1 On 23/12/12 21:23, felix@×××××××.com wrote:
2 > A few weeks ago I had a scare when a reboot paniced the kernel with a
3 > complaint that it could not find the root device (/dev/sde), and
4 > further reboots couldn't even see the USB keyboard. Leavng the
5 > system powered off overnight "fixed" the problem and the system has
6 > been working fine ever since.
7
8 Do a memtest first. emerge sys-apps/memtest86+ and then add an entry
9 for it in Grub:
10
11 title=Memtest86+
12 root (hd0,0) # <- adapt this to your partition
13 kernel /boot/memtest86plus/memtest.bin
14
15 Then boot that entry and see if you get any errors in the first 5
16 minutes or so.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 3.7.1 SATA errors felix@×××××××.com
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