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 1SU0jr-0007ZW-DA for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 14 May 2012 19:15:23 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id ACBF4E09F4; Mon, 14 May 2012 19:14:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B707BE0AD3 for ; Mon, 14 May 2012 19:12:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49DFB1BC0DD for ; Mon, 14 May 2012 19:12:56 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -2.59 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.59 tagged_above=-999 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.678, BAYES_00=-1.9, 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 D3VCxmmbqmgx for ; Mon, 14 May 2012 19:12:50 +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 1911A22C003 for ; Mon, 14 May 2012 19:12:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SU0hI-0005mh-H1 for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Mon, 14 May 2012 21:12:44 +0200 Received: from rrcs-71-40-157-251.se.biz.rr.com ([71.40.157.251]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 14 May 2012 21:12:44 +0200 Received: from wireless by rrcs-71-40-157-251.se.biz.rr.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 14 May 2012 21:12:44 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: James Subject: [gentoo-user] HP A8 laptop install Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 19:12:34 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: 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=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 71.40.157.251 (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:11.0) Gecko/20120402 Firefox/11.0 SeaMonkey/2.8) X-Archives-Salt: 7e427ea6-fa79-438b-8110-820c6e0f9b87 X-Archives-Hash: 11c8e3c8567b2163b931e446fe4dae4d 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. 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. It a dv7 model AtB11UA (6C23CL?) from Costco. I got a week or 2 to get the dual boot working correctly, or it goes back to Costco; so any advice is welcome. Any feedback is welcome.