Kernel panic after thermal paste replacement on ThinkPad x60s
Uhm... Not quite sure if that's the appropriate forum.
Yesterday night I replaced the thermal paste of my Thinkpad x60s (which runs Parabola32 + Libreboot) and everything was fine, I put everything back together and proceeded with a boot test.
When I press the power button, I visualize the Libreboot boot screen correctly. However, as soon as I try booting into anything (I tried both my hard drive and the Parabola OpenRC live ISO) I see some strange errors.
For the HDD, I see the errors in the attached in file "hdd.jpeg".
For the USB stick, I see the errors in "usb.jpeg".
It's like it either can't detect the BIOS battery (which I removed during the thermal paste replacement process), or it's trying to boot the 64-bit version of the Parabola LiveISO. In both cases, the shell I get dropped in is "frozen" (I cannot enter a single command), and the Libreboot BIOS settings menu does not show anything useful (at least, not that I noticed). I could not find anything helpful online. Sorry for the OT, I very recently installed Parabola on this machine and I really want it back :(
Replies (2)
Kernel panic after thermal paste replacement on ThinkPad x60s - bill-auger - 5 months ago -
if the CPU were not being cooled properly, you would not see
libreboot either - normally the computer would shut off
the first image (booting a liveISO?) is complaining about
encryption; but the parabola liveISO should have no concern for
encryption - the second image looks like the bootloader has a bad
command line
can you boot any OS with it? - if not, i would ask libreboot
people about it, or re-flash libreboot if you can, then
re-install parabola if necessary
RE: Kernel panic after thermal paste replacement on ThinkPad x60s - shako - 5 months ago -
Hi bill-auger, thanks a lot for your reply :)
I seemingly cannot boot any OS with it, hence I cannot flash the ROM internally. I tried flashing it externally, but flashrom won't detect the chip. I thought maybe there was something on the motherboard that was interfering with it preventing me from reading it, so I desoldered it, but that also didn't work. I suspect the chip got damaged, or the files inside it got corrupted for some reason.
However, I recently purchased a bunch of SST25VF016B chips (which is the model used to store the BIOS in x60s, or at least my model). I will try flashing Libreboot on one of those, and then soldering it to the motherboard. Hopefully that will fix everything. I'll let you know! :)
My main concern was that the CPU got damaged for some reason. I'm glad to hear that also you think that's not the case!