ср, 17 февр. 2021 г. в 13:50, gevisz <gev...@gmail.com>: > > ср, 17 февр. 2021 г. в 04:54, Edward <edwardmgibso...@gmail.com>: > > > > On 2/15/21 9:53 AM, 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.) > > > > What motherboard model is this? > > It is a good question. My motherboard is Gigabyte Ultra Durable > GA-MA790FXT-UD5P > and I had problems with it from the very beginning in the sense that it is > quite often doesn't see my SATA disks on the first boot (though, on the second > reboot it usually finds them). It is also quite often that it stops booting > the legacy operating system and automatically reboots before showing > a login screen. > > I bought it somewhere in 2006 together with a Gigabyte S-series GA-MA69GM-S2H > motherboard, which I have been intensively using every day since then and > never > had any problem. > > In contrast, the Ultra Durable one has been used very rarely and for > quite short periods of time. > So, I do not expect it to wear off by now. > > > Probably BIOS disk controller setting needs to be set to either SATA AHCI > > or something else? > > Well, I will look into but the problem is that it worked previously > with the same BIOS settings. > > Below is an account of what I have done so far. > > First of all, I copied the system partition from my ATA to the SATA > drive, updated the system, > recompiled @system, openrc and gentoo-kernel, which unfortunately had > no effect on the booting problem. > > At this stage, I started to seriously consider the suggestions above > that it may be a hardware problem. > > So, I returned to the initial ATA system partition, updated the system > there, switched off swap (in fstab), > reinstalled grub on this disk and tried to boot from it. To my great > surprise it failed to boot again > complaining about links to two my SATA drives that it was not supposed > to use at all!
Correction: Of course, in this case, I have not reinstalled gentoo-kernel. So, it may be that the links to my SATA drives are still in the initramfs that was created before. (The swap was one of my SATA drives.) However, I used another SATA drive to try the system from there (with swap on it) with the same failure to boot. > And the legacy operating system has absolutely no problem starting > from the ATA drive now. P.S. Currently, I am going to remove my SATA disks from the system and try to reboot it once again. If it will not help, I am going to recompile gentoo-kernel on the only remaining ATA disk. (And, if that will not help, I will look for the hammer. :)
