Re: Kernel fails to detect internal hard drives after routine apt-get upgrade
On 5/11/2014 8:44 PM, O wrote:
> Dear debian-users,
>
> A first-time post for me: I've never had a problem that was so serious.
>
> I've had Wheezy installed for many months now with default kernel
> 3.2.0-4-amd64. Following a routine apt-get upgrade, the kernel cannot
> detect any of the internal drives. After many *"ata#: reset failed, giving
> up"* and *"udevd: timeout"* errors, I am dropped to an initramfs Busybox
> prompt that cannot see any drives (fdisk -l sees nothing).
>
> Interestingly, I *can* boot into the old Squeeze kernel (2.7.x). From
> booting under the old kernel, I have tried:
>
> # apt-get remove linux-image-3.2.0-4-amd64
> # apt-get install linux-image-amd64
>
> # cd /boot; update-initramfs -k 3.2.0-4-amd64 -u
>
> # apt-get update
> # apt-get upgrade
> # apt-get dist-upgrade
>
> All to no avail. Interestingly, even the Debian 7.5 netinst CD will not
> see the drives, and asks me to select a driver (it makes no suggestions).
> When I drop to a prompt in recovery mode (another BusyBox prompt), fdisk -l
> does not see any drives.
>
> There is nothing exotic about my drives: they are four Western Digital 2 TB
> internal hard drives.
>
> This one has me stumped. I hope someone can help. Please let me know if
> there is additional information I should post, or if there is somewhere
> else that I should be posting instead. I would appreciate any leads.
Full dmesg output would be far more helpful than your narrative. Please
paste it inline so we can cut the irrelevant parts from our replies and
highlight the problem parts.
Cheers,
Stan
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