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.
