From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mk-smarthost-9.mail.uk.tiscali.com (mk-smarthost-9.mail.uk.tiscali.com [212.74.114.48]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j4QB7Qsk010637 for ; Thu, 26 May 2005 11:07:26 GMT Received: from dsl-80-41-51-118.access.as9105.com ([80.41.51.118]:33171 helo=[192.168.1.25]) by mk-smarthost-9.mail.uk.tiscali.com with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1DbGC5-0001Nn-92 for gentoo-laptop@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 26 May 2005 12:06:29 +0100 Message-ID: <4295BB36.8080706@tiscali.co.uk> Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 12:04:06 +0000 From: Sad Jack User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050517) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-laptop@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-laptop@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-laptop@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-laptop] Install problems X-Enigmail-Version: 0.90.2.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: e8187ddc-e58e-4619-9b50-365ceeac4efe X-Archives-Hash: e7d2933904db2963d14055f2313450b2 I've installed gentoo on my desktop and I'm trying now to get it to run as a dual boot with Win XP on my laptop. Whenever I try and boot from the install CD (the same one used to install on my desktop, the current universal 2005) installation hangs after 'ok installing the kernel'. Nothing seems to happen, no disk access (CD or Hard drive). I've tried other distros..Suse, Ubuntu, Puppy, the only one that gets me passed the above is Slackware 10.1 which goes through the complete install but cannot write lilo to boot. Just says it can't write and says to do it manually. In any case I want Gentoo!!! Laptop Acer TravelMate 8104WLMi Intel Pentium M 760 Processor ATI Mobility Radeon X700 with 128Mb 100GB hard drive DVD re writer 1GB DDR2 533 The hard drive has a small restore partition with recovery tools hidden under windows and seen in linux as /dev/hda1. The windows install is at /dev/hda2. I have the rest as unallocated space at the mo awaiting (hopefully) Gentoo. I get the feeling that its at the hardware detection stage that is the problem as live CD's when booted in failsafe load and work OK. I can't find a failsafe option to boot Gentoo, is there one? I've looked around the forums and this problem has been highlighted by others but I do not see a solution. Any ideas would be very gratefully received. -- gentoo-laptop@gentoo.org mailing list