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Jake, |
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Jake Moe <jakesaddress@×××××.com> writes: |
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> I've just completed a fresh Gentoo installation on a new laptop, and |
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> strangely, after I choose the entry from the Grub screen, all I get is: |
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> Booting `Gentoo Linux 2.6.32-r7` |
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> root (hd0,1) |
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> Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 |
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> kernel /kernel-2.6.32-gentoo-r7 root=/dev/sda4 |
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> [Linux-bzImage, setup=0x3000, size=0x1ab020] |
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> It then sits there. No error, no other messages. The hard drive light |
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> stops, and the Num Lock and Caps Lock keys don't respond. If I press |
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> the power button, it immediately turns off. |
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> The laptop is a HP 8440p and I've installed amd64. I've followed the |
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> install guide, and the hard drive has Windows, EXT2 /boot, swap, EXT3 / |
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> on it. I've compiled EXT2, EXT3 and SATA AHCI into the kernel. |
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> Does anyone have any idea what I've forgotten or missed? If you need |
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> more info, let me know. Thanks for any help you can give. |
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I had a similar problem about 6 weeks or so ago. It turned out that the |
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hardware (a Dell Optiplex 320) and Grub were incompatible in some way. |
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I installed Lilo instead, and everything now works fine. So, try |
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searching on your specific hardware to see if this is a known problem. |
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Roger |
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