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Hi Everyone,

I wrote in earlier with a problem on my Compaq Presario R3000 - when I 
try to install 5.2.1 from the cd, I can't boot the kernel - after I pick 
a kernel, the machine powers down.

What do I do to figure out how to fix this thing? I've tried several 
Linux distributions as well - they are Gentoo, Fedora and Jollix (A 
German Gentoo derivative). I was able to install Fedora successfully, 
and all the other Linuxes can boot from the cd. Jollix successfully 
starts X and brings up a KDE desktop. So it seems that getting Open 
Source to work on this machine is not so impossible - and I would really 
like to have FreeBSD on it if I could.

If the problem lay in the ACPI (my first guess) how would I fix it? Is 
there something I could lift from one of the Linux distros to get my box 
to work?
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