fatal IO error 104

Forum: Laptops
Topic: fatal IO error 104
started by: Ikram

Posted by Ikram on Aug. 09 2006,18:50

Hello all...

I have a problem. I can't get to the DSL desktop, and I'm getting the same error msg when i try from both liveCD and a HD install with a swap partition.

the message is

modprobe: can't locate module fb0
XIO: fatal IO error 104

I've been doing some searching and realize its related to some video config thing... what i should i do next ?

the toshiba satellite cdt4000 is a pretty old laptop, running with P2-233 Mhz, and 32 MB RAM.

i'm quite a green noob, just cutting my teeth in the linux world, so I'd really appreciate any guidance!

Posted by Ikram on Aug. 24 2006,14:07

Hello

Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on Aug. 24 2006,23:43

Did you use md5sum to verify your download. -Is your boot media corrupt?
What happens when you change around using xsetup? failsafe? see the wiki for more boot/cheat codes.

Did you get any errors before this? And when does it occur? Can you still use DSL after this error?

Posted by OJCIT on Sep. 21 2006,00:38

I can't help, but I can sympathize, since I get the same error depending on how I do it.

I don't think it's an md5 sum problem, since I can get around by doing xsetup and selecting a semi-legitimate option. I'm gonna try the manual dpi override...

Posted by Ikram on Sep. 24 2006,09:13

my download is ok..not an md5 sum problem, the DSL live CD works perfectly on another laptop (a newer one)

tried xsetup, this is what i got after choosing the options-

sed: /opt/bootlocal.sh : no such file or directory

Posted by satellite on Sep. 30 2006,06:34

hello
I have the same problem like Ikram on my old Toshiba satellite 110cs. I have a Frugal instalation on hda1 and a hd instal on hda 2 with Grub.
When i boot with xvesa the colours are al wrong on the screen. When I try to boot with fb800x600 I get the same error mesage fatal IO error 104.
Help!

Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on Sep. 30 2006,22:02

Try other video modes in the F2/F3 menu,

or for X, you can try changing the server and video modes by running xsetup.sh