Hello Andrea, Andrea Conti <a...@alyf.net> writes:
> I would check the processor type setting (A 3GHz Celeron should be > P4-based) and/or muck around with ACPI. Also try disabling framebuffer > drivers and using a plain VGA console. > > Leave all advanced settings in your bios to their defaults. > > And no, EM64T just means it *can* run amd64 -- i686 is fine and IMO a > lot better for that kind of hardware if you do not absolutely need to > run 64-bit code for some reason. That is what I thought. I looked into the BIOS: no AHCI support. I edited the genkernel .config and set the various SATA drivers as built-in. There seemed to be nothing wrong with grub or its configuration (I rebuilt it anyway, just in case). In the end I gave up and installed the machine as an amd64. I may know today how that turned out: my install script shuts the machine down at the end and I'll need to get someone to re-boot it for me as I'm not in the office. I'll let you know what happened. Thanks Andrea and everyone else for your help. Roger
