Damn Small Linux cant find fb0, fatal error 104
I installed dsl on my laptop, a old hp omnibook 3000 with about 64MB RAM and a 4GB HDD. i can boot into dsl fine using the xvesa setting but the display is messed up. i want to try and boot into xfbdev to fix this, but i always get this to show up.
Loading /usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwerty/.us.kmap.gz xauth: creating new authority file /home/dsl/.xauthority xauth: creating new authority file /home/dsl/.xauthority modprobe: modeprobe: Can't locate module fb0 XIO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0" after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.:newbie: |
I am not sure how old your omnibook is. It sounds like it is at least a little bit newer than an old Compaq laptop that I tried to get DSL running on. I never was successful getting graphics to work on it. I do remember getting lots of error messages, perhaps one similar to the one you are getting. After doing a lot of Internet search and playing around I finally gave up. But I do seem to remember that if you wanted to use xbfdev, you had to pass the video mode at boot time. But I have forgotten details.
On a brighter note, when I tried to find out how old your laptop is, I ran across this link titled GNU/Linux on HP OmniBook Laptops. It is sponsored by HP! If you haven't already done so, you might see if that page can lead you anywhere. |
Thanks i will look into that link.
EDIT: since time of original post i have sucessfuly gotten DSL to boot into xbfdev off the CD, however i get the above errors when i try and boot from the hard drive. |
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I can successfully boot DSL from my hard drive. it requires the CD to be in and when i get to the splash screen i use the command "boot: dsl fromhd=/dev/hda1 xsetup". at the xsetup menu i select xbfdev, IMPS/2 mouse and US keyboard. DSL then loads the GUI successfully:) . i attempted a hard drive install. i have 3 partitions hda1:linux boot, 600mb hda2:backup, 160mb hda3:linux swap, 3000somethingmb. i followed the instructions in the hard drive install and when i rebooted, the system could not find a file. i think it was "KNOPTIX". anyway, i rebooted with the cd and used the cheat code "dsl tohd=/dev/hda1" to copy all the files over to hda1. this fixed the missing file:) . Now for the real problem. no cd in i get to the GRUB menu and boot from the default DSL selection. everything works fine until i get to xsetup. i follow the procedure as above and end up with the fatal error 104:confused: . :Pengy: i am a linux n00b so correct me if i am wrong but i think a have a furgal install because DSL runs mostly from the hard drive and uses the cd a little bit. what i want is a full hard drive install, no cd required. :Pengy: any help is appreciated, thanks. |
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I have never done a frugal installation. Once, with DSL 1.0, I did a regular installation for somebody else. My understanding of a frugal installation is that it is almost the same thing as a live CD except that the files are on the hard drive instead of a CD. I.e. it is still running from the file KNOPPIX. A regular install does not use the file KNOPPIX. Rather it copies all the files (uncompressed) into a regualr file system on the disk. Neither a frugal install or a regular install should require a CD at all. At least that is how I understand it. :) From the error that it couldn't find KNOPPIX, it sounds like you did a frugal install. (But I have no idea where that file went!) Booting from CD with the tohd= option copied that file to the hard drive. Quote:
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cat /proc/cmdline |
Using the command you gave me, after i got the error and typed in the command it showed me
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root=/dev/hda1 quiet vga=normal noacpi noapm noscsi frugal Code:
ramdisk size=100000 init=/etc/init lang=us apm=power-off vga=791 initrd=minirt24.gz looks like i will spend another day trying to get this to work:p . EDIT: I just got it to boot directly from the hard drive no CD required. At the GRUB loader use Code:
kernal /boot/linux24 /boot/knoppix root=/dev/hda1 |
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If you find the file and need help changing it, post the existing file here. It sounds like you are almost home. :D |
Thanks for all of your help so far. I have found the configuration file and know which line i need to edit. however the file is read only. how can i change this??
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user@box:~$ ls -lh /boot/grub/menu.lst Code:
sudo chown dsl path/filename Code:
sudo chown root path/filename |
i got it figured out thanks. now to get the sound to work.
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You might check out that link I gave in post #2 again. See if it contains any help for sound. |
Thanks (eavesdropper)
Thanks to those who posted to the above thread.
I found it useful in resuscitating a Toshiba 300CDT laptop. |
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