From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 (2022-12-14) on finch.gentoo.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.1 required=5.0 tests=DMARC_NONE,MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=4.0.0 Received: from lakemtao02.cox.net (lakemtao02.cox.net [68.1.17.243]) by chiba.3jane.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id C80BCAC3B5 for ; Tue, 23 Apr 2002 09:29:57 -0500 (CDT) Received: from smtp.east.cox.net ([172.18.52.57]) by lakemtao02.cox.net (InterMail vM.5.01.04.05 201-253-122-122-105-20011231) with SMTP id <20020423142955.HOIK18443.lakemtao02.cox.net@smtp.east.cox.net> for ; Tue, 23 Apr 2002 10:29:55 -0400 From: To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 10:29:57 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20020423142955.HOIK18443.lakemtao02.cox.net@smtp.east.cox.net> Subject: [gentoo-dev] gentoo on laptop Sender: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org Errors-To: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.6 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Gentoo Linux developer list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: X-Archives-Salt: 489c09a3-2e18-479a-98f5-ee89b141922f X-Archives-Hash: 4d947b5cc53a8b0db886648c5b1595f4 I want to try your distro, it looks to be just what I am looking for however, I am having trouble...installs fine, but I am using a presario 700 laptop and when I boot goes to grub then I pick gentoo and it starts to loasd then rebots the machine, this problem was easy enough to fix with mandrake by giving the kernel option nobiospnp, however this did not help with gentoo. please help I am very eager to work with your distro thank you, Eric