Well, I just got this new HP A8 laptop.
After setting up the default windows, I modified the bios boot order to use the internal DVD. Then I inserted a 12.0 lived DVD. It put for small gentoo symbols across the top, then went blank after 3 minutes. The DVD drive was very active for about 5 minutes then silence? Any suggestions or install guides are most welcome. It's been a few years since I installed Gentoo on a laptop and lots has change. Right now, I'm downloading the 12.1 liveDVD to see if it will boot that. Both were the amd64-multilib version. The lived DVD work on other (older) 64amd machines I have..... If not then its on to to knoppix or ubuntu to see it will boot any linux distro. Years ago, when I last did a dual boot install, there was a windows method for shrinking the windows partition. Then I repartitioned the drive and put gentoo on those new partitions. Has that approached, using grub changed? The guides I seen to be finding via google, look dated. It a dv7 model AtB11UA (6C23CL?) from Costco. I got a week or 2 to get the dual boot working correctly, or it goes back to Costco; so any advice is welcome. Any feedback is welcome.
