On 17/06/10 20:38, Roger Mason wrote: > Jake, > > Jake Moe <jakesaddr...@gmail.com> writes: > > >> I've just completed a fresh Gentoo installation on a new laptop, and >> strangely, after I choose the entry from the Grub screen, all I get is: >> >> Booting `Gentoo Linux 2.6.32-r7` >> >> root (hd0,1) >> Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 >> kernel /kernel-2.6.32-gentoo-r7 root=/dev/sda4 >> [Linux-bzImage, setup=0x3000, size=0x1ab020] >> >> It then sits there. No error, no other messages. The hard drive light >> stops, and the Num Lock and Caps Lock keys don't respond. If I press >> the power button, it immediately turns off. >> >> The laptop is a HP 8440p and I've installed amd64. I've followed the >> install guide, and the hard drive has Windows, EXT2 /boot, swap, EXT3 / >> on it. I've compiled EXT2, EXT3 and SATA AHCI into the kernel. >> >> Does anyone have any idea what I've forgotten or missed? If you need >> more info, let me know. Thanks for any help you can give. >> > I had a similar problem about 6 weeks or so ago. It turned out that the > hardware (a Dell Optiplex 320) and Grub were incompatible in some way. > I installed Lilo instead, and everything now works fine. So, try > searching on your specific hardware to see if this is a known problem. > > Roger > > I had tried to see if there was anything special about the hardware, but couldn't find anything. I'm still of the opinion that it's something to do with the kernel, but I've given up on amd64 (I'm not sure if I've had an amd64 Gentoo PC before) and switched back to x86, and other than forgetting SCSI disk support in the kernel for my SATA disk (which I *always* do, why can't they make SCSI disk support a requirement for SATA AHCI support?), the install went smoothly. The only other thing of note is that I seem to need to use the unstable ndivia-drivers (195.36.24), as the latest stable one (190.42-r3) produced flickering garbage on my screen when I went into X.
Thanks for trying to those that did. Jake Moe
