On Saturday 27 September 2003 12:50 am, James Sparenberg wrote: > On Fri, 2003-09-26 at 22:44, lorne wrote: > > On Friday 26 September 2003 09:35 pm, lorne wrote: > > > I've seen 3 messages about this but no answers. My son's machine no > > > longer will load Mandrake 9.1. I get a kernel panic with directory not > > > found. Who knows! ?? I decided to re-install. I just stops at > > > "rebuilding rpm database". A look around shows that I'm getting: I8253 > > > count too high resetting! > > > > > > So far I've seen questions out on the internet about what is causing > > > it, but no answers. I initally figured it must be like a USB chipset or > > > something, but I've gone into cmos and disabled all serial, parallel > > > and USB ports. Does anybody know what this is and how to get past it? I > > > am dead in the water until I figure out what this is. > > > > Well talking to myself here.... It appears this is a timing chipset and > > it looks like it may be related to the IDE controller. ??? I'm not sure > > yet if I have a chip failing yet or not. I just changed some cmos > > settings and it still hangs in expert mode, and it refuses to do an > > update. I'm trying a fresh install and it "appears" to be ging fine so > > far. ?? Weird!! > > Just saw this one. If the re-install works cool. But sounds like what > might have been needed was to boot from the rescue cd then choose mount > existing partitions. once done cd to /mnt/var/lib/rpm and look for > files that look something like __00xxxxxx (not that it is two > underlines to start the filename) and remove them all. This will get > rid of all of the hosed attempts to rebuild the db and allow you to go > again. > I was able to get in in rescue mode, but none of the partitions were visible or mounted. So I suspect that my 7 year old maybe managed to delete a partition? I'm on disk two now. No big deal... he uses it for games, but I figure if I can get him hooked young, he'll be a real good linux user when he gets older. :)
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