On 01/23/2015 11:29 PM, Constant Brouerius van Nidek wrote:
On Saturday, January 24, 2015 12:40:58 AM Ludwig Nussel wrote:
Changed packages:
Does not know what package have caused my problem but after yesterdays zypper dup my main computer does not boot any more. This computer was fully updated Tumbleweed and worked okay up to the last update which updated some 286 packages. I have tried al installed kernel packages without success. With the older kernels the error messages differed slight.
After the reboot I was/am stuck with the cryptic message: ....................................... root (hd1,0) Filesystem type is ext2fs, parition type 0x83 kernel /boot/vmlinuz-3.18.1-1-default root=/def/disk/by-label/susesdb1 resume=/dev/by-label/swap splash=silent quiet nomodeset [Linux-bzImage, setup=0x4200, size=0x5289b0] initrd /boot/initrd-3.18.1-1-default [Linux-initrd @ 0x37870000, 0x77f754 bytes]
[ 4.723024] usb 1-1: device descriptor read/all, error =75 [ 6.911699] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdg ] Asking for cache data failed [ 6.911699] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdg ] Assuming drive cache: write through [ 14.256028] ata2: SRST failed (errno=-16) [ 24.268028] ata2: SRST failed (errno=-16) - ........................................
Have no idea how I can reslove the mess in which I find myself in. On the affected machine I am still using Grub. On the machine I am using now I have Grub2 but I have not stopped a planned update for the time being. Both machines are Pentium IV.
When I read that the same failure happens even with older kernels, the "hardware" flag went off in my head. Those ata2: failures look very suspicious. Error number -16 is -EBUSY, which implies that the disk system has not finished some operation that was previously started. If your BIOS includes any disk diagnostics, run them. If no such routines are available, then boot a live image and run smartctl to look at the statistics for the disk. If nothing is obvious, then run the long disk test. I suspect that it will fail. It is not totally dead, or the kernel and initrd would not have loaded. Larry -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org