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mastrgamr

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From: New York City

Registered: 2011-08-01

Posts: 19

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Arch Linux won't boot, "working on device dev/sda..."

Everytime I try to boot Arch there is a repeating message that pops up about every 3 seconds after the 'udev' events loads. My boot gets hung on the "working on device dev/sda6 (my linux partition on my laptop) and this message just keeps popping up every few seconds, repeatedly, non-stop:

ata1.00: exeption Emask 0x0 SAct 0x1 SErr 0x0 action 0x0
ata1.00: irq_stat 0x40000008
ata1.00: failed command: READ FPDMA QUEUED
ata1.00: emd 60/08/600:f1:69:51/00:00:16:00:00/40
ata1.00: tag 0 ncq 4096 in
ata1.00: status: {DRDY ERR}
ata1.00: error:{UNC}

and after 3 messages like the one above this message appears:

Ext4-fs error(device sda 6) __ext4_get_inod0 ...

I'm not sure if anyone could help me but I figured I would give it a shot. I might also mention that my HDD has been having tons of issues and has loads of bad sectors, I'm just saving up for a new one but for now I'm dealing with the one I have. My HDD also clicks when these messages start coming up.

Is there any way to fix this?

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Coming from Ubuntu, New to Arch! -- 8/1/2011
Trying to dual boot Arch Linux with Mac OS X, on MBP -- 4/22/2013

alphaniner

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From: Ancapistan

Registered: 2010-07-12

Posts: 2,810

Re: Arch Linux won't boot, "working on device dev/sda..."

I might also mention that my HDD has been having tons of issues and has loads of bad sectors, I'm just saving up for a new one but for now I'm dealing with the one I have. My HDD also clicks when these messages start coming up.

LOL. That's like getting to the altar and saying to your soon-to-be-spouse "I might also mention that I'm sterile."

The ata1.00... are hardware errors.  Probably drive problems, based on your belated exposition.  If you haven't already run a bad sector reallocation tool, do so.  The only other thing I would suggest is try the drive on another controller make sure it is only drive problems.  I've seen issues on laptops that seemed to be fixed by a new drive, but the problems returned shortly after replacement.

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shulamy

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From: israel

Registered: 2010-09-11

Posts: 467

Re: Arch Linux won't boot, "working on device dev/sda..."

you can try to delete this partition.

ezik

mastrgamr

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From: New York City

Registered: 2011-08-01

Posts: 19

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Re: Arch Linux won't boot, "working on device dev/sda..."

you can try to delete this partition.

ezik

damn, that's the only solution huh? that sucks.

run a bad sector reallocation tool

I actually tried to look for a solution to fix my bad sectors before, but couldn't find any
could you recommend one?

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Coming from Ubuntu, New to Arch! -- 8/1/2011
Trying to dual boot Arch Linux with Mac OS X, on MBP -- 4/22/2013

MoonSwan

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From: Great White North

Registered: 2008-01-23

Posts: 881

Re: Arch Linux won't boot, "working on device dev/sda..."

Get the "ultimate boot cd" or go to your hdd's manufacturer site, most of these vendors allow users to download specialised software specific to their hardware.