> I got a core duo machine with an intel motherboard with the 965 chip
> set. There is a sata HD and ide DVD.  The installation disk fails to
> boot since the jernel does not recognize the dvd.  I tried the following
> bios configurations:
> * switch between ahci  and ide
> * switch between legacy and advanced (native) mode
> * boot with "gentoo apic=off"
> Nothing worked.
> If I understood right, only 2.6.18 kernel would fully support ICH8, and
> that the 965 chipset douse not support AC'97 sound. Is there a way to do
> a functional installation of gentoo on this system?

More details please. Which motherboard, what kind of harddisk, does
Knoppix boot? What's the output of lspci and so on ...

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