anybody can help me with gentoo install new laptop[solved]

padoor · Advocate Joined: 30 Dec 2005 Posts: 4185 Location: india

i got a brand new laptop toshiba satellie C855D-S5232
the lie dvd does not boot from dvd/cd drive.
there is no way to to get in to the bios.
windows 7 is installed oem.
user manual does not give any elp on this issue
anybody using this laptop model?

edit:
thanks for all replies .
the keyboard F1--F12 is set in bios so i had to use FN button and F12
thanks

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aidanjt · Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2012 12:56 pm Post subject:

Boot System Rescue CD off a USB thumbstick and install with that?

It's very unusual for a machine not to be able to boot a bootable optical disc, though.
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padoor · Advocate Joined: 30 Dec 2005 Posts: 4185 Location: india

mmmm how is it?
i expand the iso in the usb stick?
hwsetup shows a usb boot option.
but does not show if it is usb hdd or stick
i will try and get back
thanks for the reply
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aidanjt · Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2012 2:14 pm Post subject:

eccerr0r · Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2012 2:37 pm Post subject:

There has got to be a way to get to bios setup. Did you try pressing like esc, f1, delete, f12, f9 during boot (these seem to be the most common bios override keys)...

On my laptop it's f9 that will bring up a boot menu, and there I can select a USB cdrom drive (it has no internal drive!)
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kernelOfTruth · Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2012 2:44 pm Post subject:

for boot-selection:

press F12 while booting it up - the boot menu should show up

about access to the bios:

not so sure :/

probable manual:

http://forums.toshiba.com/tshb/attachments/tshb/brd_gen/44139/1/Sat-SatProC800_12Mar30.pdf
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danomac · Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2012 4:51 pm Post subject:

Common BIOS keys are Esc, F1, F2, F9, F10, and F12, and Del. If none of them work, you probably need to use Windows. I recall working on a Toshiba laptop that had no way to access the BIOS at boot, you had to enter the BIOS through Windows using Toshiba's "special" program, downloadable from their website.

If that's the case, you'll have to keep a Windows partition on your laptop (well, if you want to access the BIOS, anyway.)

szczerb · Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2012 6:59 am Post subject:

Ouch! Now I got yet another reason to never buy a Toshiba laptop (although I was very pleased with their phones - had two models with Windows Mobile).

padoor · Advocate Joined: 30 Dec 2005 Posts: 4185 Location: india

F12 pressed while power button pressing gets into bios setup.
they call it ODD the dvd-ram optical drive.
from within windows toshiba hot keys show the boot setup options.
as i could not get what is ODD all these post and answers.
now it boots up from livedvd installation can prceed.
can anybody tell if toshiba bios checks checksum for other partitioning schemes and fail to boot?
current partition lis is
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danomac · Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2012 3:35 pm Post subject:

One of the hidden partitions is the Windows Recovery partition. I haven't seen the Toshiba BIOS checksum the partition tables.

You can shrink the Windows partition by using a gparted boot disc - shrink it down, then (VERY important) boot into Windows before doing anything. It will have to check the filesystem structure and make sure everything is OK.

Ideally, you'd want to move the last hidden partition to the start of the free space after shrinking that large Windows partition. Then you can create an extended partition set and create swap, boot, and / for gentoo.

If you are worried about the original partitions, you can always take an image of each partition before modifying anything. Got a spare usb HDD nearby? It's a good idea, in case the shrinking and moving partitions around fails.

kernelOfTruth · Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2012 6:27 pm Post subject:

if you've a seagate or WD harddrive

there's a free trueimage liveCD of both manufacturers available

I highly recommend using that since I had less successful experience with other tools in the past

by chance I also got a new laptop a few weeks ago and trueimage was really handy in restoring the original partitions - which I needed to register the laptop via windows
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padoor · Advocate Joined: 30 Dec 2005 Posts: 4185 Location: india

notageek · Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2012 7:26 am Post subject:

Either use "Generic-x86-64" from processor family or use 'Opteron/Athlon64/Hammer/K8'.
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