Boot CD's freeze my hp laptop

[patg68]

Hi all. I've juste bought an laptop, the HP omnibook xe4400, and I'd like to install Gentoo. The problem is that all boot CD's cause a system freeze at the end of the boot process so I can't go any further.

Any idea ??
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[Fmangeant]

Hi

I had the same problem on a Maxdata laptop (Pentium IV, ALI M15x3 chipset); I had to add the extra parameter "ide=nodma" to boot.

Now I'm using the ac-sources kernel, it includes the IDE driver revision 7.00beta which allows me to enable DMA on the disk.

Regards,

[patg68]

Thanks for the tip, but it doesn't work, still freezing after booting with the ISO CDs, unable to strike any key.
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