Hello,

I recently purchased an HP Pavilion ze5517ea Notebook that I'd like to
use to dual-boot between XP Pro and Slackware 9.1.

I've attempted a couple of installations already and have had all go
well up until the reboot. The system hangs on every reboot at 2
particular places: the first being ehci_*** (I believe has something
to do with USB) and the second having to do with DHCP addressing.

At first I had a problem with LILO loading at all, but resolved that
by increasing the size of the root directory...as Slack informed me
that it couldn't write the information due to insufficient disk size.
After that, all went well after which I rebooted only to be presented
with my current situation.

For the record, I have some general experience with installing Linux
(read...RedHat, SuSE...), FreeBSD and OpenBSD, so the process is not
that unfamiliar, I'm just not knowledgeable enough to conclude where
my next step is outside of Googling and now this newsgroup.

I read in a non-Slackware related newsgroup that one should check to
see if Legacy USB support is enabled in the BIOS, so I'll take a look
at that although I understand that it might not be applicable. I've
read at Linux-on-Laptops that this series (ze5500) of laptops has been
shown to run Mandrake 9.2 and Debian, but I sort of subscribe to the
idea that distribution installation is second to kernel support, so
I'm ASS-uming that if it's supported in a particular kernel, then the
distribution is not really that important...except for a tweak here or
there. If I'm mistaken, please help me out of my illusion.

Lastly, let me say that the router I use to handle DHCP addressing has
been pretty straight-forward in regards to all other installations
I've performed, so I can't imagine that has anything to do with
anything...but I could be wrong.

I any event...

Thanks in advance for your time, help, advice and support,

Gabriel