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Not sure but in the past acpi/apic caused problems and sometimes you had to |
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boot with some options. When the cd starts you should get the option to add |
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some extra lines to the boot process (press F1, F2 and read the help). |
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Something like: |
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noapic nolapic acpi=off |
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I don't think its your partitions because you partition and format them during |
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the installation process... so you should get to a prompt with no partitions. |
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The Gentoo installer - for me - has been quite robust whereas Ubuntu has been |
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a constant pain with the install crashing part way through and thats with |
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5.10 and 6.04 and on various computers. |
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You get the AMD64 install didn't you? there is also an IA64 (Intel Arch) which |
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is a bit confusing. |
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Kevin. |
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On Tuesday 24 January 2006 14:59, Iain McKee wrote: |
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>Okay so I probably shouldn't be using gentoo, since I have minimal linux |
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>experience (yellowdog and ubuntu), but there is only one way to learn right. |
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>I recently bought a machine with an amd64 3400+ processor. |
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>I downloaded the amd64 install, burned it to CD and verified that it was |
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>complete and working. I wanted to keep windows, so I used partition magic 8 |
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>to create the linux partitions, then rebooted with the gentoo install CD. |
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>But now when initially boot, the CD hangs at 68%...in verbose mode, it looks |
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>as though it is sticking when checking my processor. |
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> any idea how to figure out what I have done wrong? The partitioning should |
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>be fine, but I am starting to wonder since no distros will work. I can't |
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>even get the live installer to finish the hardware verification and that |
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>worries me. |
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>The only boot disk i have for windows is not a restore, but a bare minimum |
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>XP install. I would rather not format completely |
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>Sorry for being such a newbie, any help is appreciated!!! |
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>BTW, I did try booting with a couple of other linux install discs. They were |
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>x86 and did not work. I'm not sure if this is because of what I messed up or |
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>if it is because they are x86. |
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>ANY HELP IS APPRECIATED!!!! |
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