I tried to install Gentoo on Acer Travelmate 2200 Laptop. The Livecd reads fine... A chose gentoo kernel and ENTER. Kernel load and everything looks normal, but I have no keyboard input after that. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Insert Gentoo Livecd 2005.0 on cd tray and boot 2. 3. Actual Results: I have no keyboard input and can't install Gentoo on Acer Travelmate 2200 Laptop. Acer Travelmate 2200 Pentium 4 2.8GHz 512Mb RAM Integrated Spanish keyboard
You have zero keyboard input, or just the keymaps are wrong? Did you try pressing F2 to get the keymap selection?
I have zero keyboard input.
What if you boot with "gentoo-nofb noapic acpi=off nosmp nolvm2"?
Great! That fixed the problem. Thank you!