From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.204]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j4QEiAcb001637 for ; Thu, 26 May 2005 14:44:11 GMT Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 13so463324nzn for ; Thu, 26 May 2005 07:44:16 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=Of+/zCOX7E+yLZdd4K2Yr1MvifgjxQJKkfl7vkuEMIf0fOFTMVpyXdy04vdu2rmnGgLvfBafJOrvAzRqIYhvPdq+/KZC5zPSkXYf7vzW4M6SW/zru3egAYiwBZz5PU/NxTnZKJggO7MaKDOsE1VdGkAC33ocy+EU1m3+y8RKWyQ= Received: by 10.36.19.12 with SMTP id 12mr654029nzs; Thu, 26 May 2005 07:44:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.36.56.4 with HTTP; Thu, 26 May 2005 07:44:16 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <647a405805052607445795e45f@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 16:44:16 +0200 From: Jordi Molina To: gentoo-laptop@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-laptop] Install problems In-Reply-To: <4295BB36.8080706@tiscali.co.uk> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline References: <4295BB36.8080706@tiscali.co.uk> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id j4QEiAcb001637 X-Archives-Salt: 7c359497-fca3-4fb2-a330-5b0b8b396448 X-Archives-Hash: 00fd679bcad38be15b1645adf18a7d9a Hi Jack, got the same issue with an Acer On 5/26/05, Sad Jack wrote: > 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. > You can disable this partition from BIOS, the setting is called D2D something. Also check for the virus protection, that may be silly-protecting the MBR of the hard drive. > 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 > > Good luck! it's not impossible, I'm running gentoo for more than one year in my lap :) -- Jordi Molina Casas (warp3r) mail: warp3r@gmail.com www: www.warp3r.com If you're still sending mail to warper@eresmas, please update your address book, my current email is warp3r@gmail.com -- gentoo-laptop@gentoo.org mailing list