From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1SU211-0003yV-NA for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 14 May 2012 20:37:11 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 503D6E0A72; Mon, 14 May 2012 20:36:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1856E09F8 for ; Mon, 14 May 2012 20:35:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 869C71B4011 for ; Mon, 14 May 2012 20:35:23 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -2.144 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.144 tagged_above=-999 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-1.134, BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.001, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, NML_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.9, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.01] autolearn=no Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 4f_NYhY1dX1q for ; Mon, 14 May 2012 20:35:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C0ACB1BC0DA for ; Mon, 14 May 2012 20:35:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SU1z8-0003ad-1Q for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Mon, 14 May 2012 22:35:14 +0200 Received: from adsl-69-234-188-22.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net ([69.234.188.22]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 14 May 2012 22:35:14 +0200 Received: from w41ter by adsl-69-234-188-22.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 14 May 2012 22:35:14 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: walt Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: HP A8 laptop install Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 13:35:05 -0700 Message-ID: References: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-69-234-188-22.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120420 Thunderbird/12.0 In-Reply-To: X-Archives-Salt: 698dabec-a9a3-411c-a203-f39f50746e01 X-Archives-Hash: e9fd87f2b4b9f5bf282b8ab69ae13852 On 05/14/2012 12:12 PM, James wrote: > Well, > > I just got this new HP A8 laptop. > > After setting up the default windows, I modified > the bios boot order to use the internal DVD. Then > I inserted a 12.0 lived DVD. It put for > small gentoo symbols across the top, then went > blank after 3 minutes. The DVD drive was very active > for about 5 minutes then silence? > > > Any suggestions or install guides are most welcome. > It's been a few years since I installed Gentoo on > a laptop and lots has change. Right now, I'm downloading > the 12.1 liveDVD to see if it will boot that. Both > were the amd64-multilib version. The lived DVD work > on other (older) 64amd machines I have..... > If not then its on to to knoppix or ubuntu to > see it will boot any linux distro. > > Years ago, when I last did a dual boot install, there > was a windows method for shrinking the windows partition. Amazing but true. In their help manual there is a section about Disk Management, where you should see "Shrink a Basic Volume". > Then I repartitioned the drive and put > gentoo on those new partitions. Has that approached, > using grub changed? The guides I seen to be finding > via google, look dated. > > I got a week > or 2 to get the dual boot working correctly, or it > goes back to Costco; so any advice is welcome. For the same reason I decided to leave the factory boot block alone and used the free downloadable BCDEdit utility to add a second item to the Windows boot menu. Really nifty, it even lets you chainload grub from there. When you install grub, just remember to put its boot block on your gentoo partition, not the Windows partition.