Use smartctl, and check that the hard drive cable is properly seated. That seems to have fixed the same issue for previous people who had this problem
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=129401 https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=135306 If the hard drive is fine, the download the newest Nixos from here https://nixos.org/releases/nixos/unstable/nixos-14.11pre51857.788a77d/ Burn it to a dvd or usb stick and retry. Are you in business now Aloha, RK. On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 2:01 PM, J. Brian Kelley <[email protected]> wrote: > Could you expand on that? A live-cd should not expect there to be a > prepared storage unit (preparing it would be a possible requirement of the > live-cd itself). > > Further, as mentioned, the Linux Mint live-cd has no problem with the SATA > unit (and the problems with other live-cds have all related with the AMD > HD6850 and the distros' penchants for using flgrx rather than the linux > native driver). > > The SATA drive was already formatted (MBR, 1 Primary NTFS, 1 Extended with > 4 NTFS and 3 ext4, with the remainder unallocated). > > Are you saying that the NixOS live-cd requires a preformatted primary > partition? Although a complete NOOB, I believe that may be a requirement > for the /boot if LVM is invoked. > > Still I do recall from the dim distant past, that partitions are a snake's > nest of assumptions and presumptions (I have two Windows partition managers > disagreeing as to whether the unallocated space at the end of the drive is > part of the extended partition or external to it ... ). > > To that end, I am in the process of restructuring the drive with the > gparted live-cd (which also had no problem booting) and ensuring that there > is nothing following the extended partition. This will take some time. > > > > On 2014-11-02 21:00, Raahul Kumar wrote: > >> This error message you're getting >> >> ata1: irq-stat 0x00000040, connection status changed >> ata1: SError { DevExch } >> ata1: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x40000000 action 0xe frozen >> >> Means your SATA hard drive is not being recognized. Use gparted to >> partiion your >> hard drive with a filesystem and install Nixos on that. >> > >
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