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Sorry I should have said - I have already tried turning off all the options offered by pressing F2 - still no luck :-( The laptop currently has debian woody on it and it boots fine from a debian boot cd :-( Tim On Wednesday 05 March 2003 12:05, Gwendolyn van der Linden wrote: > > I am trying to install Genttoo (I am a gentoo virgin :-) on > > my laptop. WHen > > the livecd boots, I get the logo, but when the kernel > > starts loading, it gets > > just reboots the machine and dumps me back to the splash > > screen :-( Can > > anyone suggest a cure for my Gentoo bloos? > > Before the kernel boots you can enter boot options. You may need to > try a few of them. For example, acpi=off (not 'no') may improve > things. > > Gwendolyn. > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list - -- Tim Sutton BDWorld Middleware Programmer - ------------------------------------------------------------------- BiodiversityWorld Project Centre for Plant Diversity & Systematics School of Plant Sciences The University of Reading Reading, RG66AS, UK Web : www.bdworld.org Phone : +44-(0)118-378-6052 Email : t.sutton [at] reading.ac.uk (email preferred method of correspondence) - ------------------------------------------------------------------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+Zf8JZxb+GYjbYHkRAjlXAKDJ+mTbkssPz5mb6U2Xum+CxUGNFgCbB+y5 NLF9gBOCX3aBT3kVDDTXZ2o= =hoUd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list