Hi. I'm trying to install gentoo amd64 on my new core2Duo (Thinkpad z61m 9540-HAG). I already have it installed on my amd62 x2 desktop, so I can at least follow instructions that far.
However... I boot the new 2006.1 CD on my laptop... It doesn't start without acpi=off for some reason... With acpi-off I get no network. But that's not fatal... Worse case I have to manually copy a kernel from my desktop that WILL run the tg3 and acpi at the same time... I look in the docs... The docs (http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/2006.1/handbook-amd64.xml?part=1) say wonderful things like a GTK+ based installer... But X won't start... I get a CLI. No worries I say. I 'll use the dialog based one... (installer) Oops... Not found... I do a find... No installer... WTF! Why are the docs for 2006.1 amd64 telling me to use a utility that doesn't exist? Oh frack! The liveCD can't see my disk either...(SATA). (Probably due to the noacpi). Well... Actually it knows there is a disk there. But can't identify it... Has anyone out there managed to install gentoo on a relavtively recent core2duo from Lenovo? Failing that, is it possible to (easily) replace the liveCD kernel with one that works (e.g. 2.6.18-gentoo-r2 which appears to boot & run my tg3 & sata disk, but of course I haven't got an emerge or anything now...(Bastardising around I can get the stage3 from the net, unpack, a kernel from my dsktop, use knoppix-32bit to build a gentoo filesystem with snapshot & stage3, but no emerge etc to do the rest that I can find... Doh!). TIA Hamish.
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