*Correction* Linux-on-Laptops = TuxMobil and Debian = Gentoo.

Sorry for the confusion.

http://www.tuxmobil.org/hp.html

Also: Specifications

Pentium 4/2.3GHz
ALi M5229 IDE Controller
512 DDR RAM
ATi Radeon IGP 345
Sony CDRW-DVD Combo Drive
WLAN = Broadcom 54g/802.11g
NatSemi PCI Fast Ethernet
Texas Instruments 1394 Host Controller

On Wed, 24 Dec 2003 17:23:04 +0100, G7 <email@isp.net> wrote:

>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