Getting grub out of memory error after installing a new 2 TB SSD

[mihalycsaba]

The only thing I did after installing the SSD was booting into the system and checking in gparted if it sees the new ssd, it did. Did a reboot and got out of memory error after the boot screen.

Also I had a 1 TB SSD in the system, took it’s cable and put it on the new drive, then installed a new cable on a different sata port and put it on the old ssd, for better cable management. At first boot there wasn’t any problem, I saw both drives, even checked the contents of the old ssd.

It took a minute or more to boot with the out of memory message. Tried rebooting after that, now it doesn’t say out of memory, just takes a long minute to boot.

edit: It did display the out of memory message a few more times. Then I ran sudo grub-install and sudo grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg after that I didn’t see that error, just it still takes a minute to boot. It hangs after the inital ramdisk message, the drive usage led is lit up constantly for that time.

[mihalycsaba]

Soooo… idk why the out of memory error appeared, but the reason for the slow boot was something with the SATA cable. I have started grub with loglevel=6 and saw a sofreset failed(1st FIS failed) message, that means somethings up with the hardware, luckily unplugging and replugging fixed my problem.

Took me 4 hours to find this because the drive was working, I moved my SteamLibrary to the new drive and tried a game, so I didn’t think there was something wrong with the drive itself.

Also when I first plugged the drive in, I didn’t see it in the bios, but saw it in the OS. I thought it’s just some asrock bug…