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voncloft
Tux's lil' helper
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 Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2014 3:50 am Post subject: I can't boot into linux |
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I have tried to boot into gentoo - but I can't
the grub comes up but then get a message stating
softreset failed device not ready
then kernel panics
Is my hard drive dead?
I have tried switching everything to IDE in the motherboard, tried different SATA ports, and Sata cables, I can't even use a livecd it still states softreset failed. |
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voncloft
Tux's lil' helper
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| Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2014 7:21 am Post subject: |
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| just found out hard drive is dead - attempted to boot a windows cd just to see if it could see something to install on ....and the drive was not seen. |
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Roman_Gruber
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| Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2014 5:56 pm Post subject: |
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| check your bios settings too |
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krinn
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| Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2014 7:53 pm Post subject: |
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| tw04l124 wrote: | | check your bios settings too |
+1 check your drive presence in bios, because Windows may not see a drive if it is attach to a controller that need a driver for it ; so your Windows check is not sane. |
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tlhonmey
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| Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2014 4:59 pm Post subject: |
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| Softreset failed is a drive error message though. One other thing you can do is unplug the cable from the drive and boot from a live CD, then plug the drive cable back in and watch dmesg and/or use smartctl to check the diagnostics. |
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