In article <crfjuvcgni28pou25f04ft1ch8n4okefr0@4ax.com>, G7 wrote:
> *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
>

Probably not related but it's worth a shot... I got Slack
9.1 running on my ze5375us, whih has similar specs to yours.
I noticed that I could power on and boot without a problem,
but I could not REboot. If I powered off and on, everything
was fine again. Looks like reboot is not doing a full
power-on reset.

Finally gave up (temporarily) on turning this beast into a
linux box. I tried a 2.6.0 kernal, but still could not get
ACPI suspend, or even DPMS screen blanking to go. I'll try
again in awhile, after 2.6 nd ACPI have been aound a bit
longer.

-jeff