Gentoo begins booting and hangs while attempting to detect usb stuff (uhci specifically). Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. boot 2. load default kernel Actual Results: The install hangs. Expected Results: No real resolution is nessecary since this is a very small bug related to strange compaq hardware. Running gentoo with the options nousb and nohotplug allows you to install.
thanks for the report, hopefully future kernel versions will like your laptop better