пн, 15 февр. 2021 г. в 20:59, Jude DaShiell <jdash...@panix.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. > > > > >
