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