During a Stage 1 bootstrap of Gentoo, my laptop shuts down. Why would this happen?

It's not a battery issue, as the AC is plugged in.

I've completely followed the installation instructions line-by-line 100% and when I do /usr/portage/scripts/bootstrap.sh, about 5 minutes into it, just craps out and shuts down my system. It shouldn't be doing this.

I have my CFFlags set as "-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"

and CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"

There's nothing at all wrong with how I have things setup. Even did: export USE="-java" before the bootstrap to speed it up.

Also, since I removed my existing linux partition (red hat), the old grub.conf file was deleted.

I looked at grub documentation and to get into my windows partition (/dev/hda1), it says type "root (hd0,0)", but the grub loader complains about something unknown at 0x07 (which I guess is the filesystem type). The prompt appears (during boot) as: grub>

Your laptop is overheating. Start with a stage 3. Then recompile the system from there so you can use powermanagement to keep the processor from overloading.

It's not overheating.

If I move the mouse every 5 minutes, it stays on just fine. If it was overheating, it would shut down regardless of if I move the mouse or not. I went 2 hours into the boostrap with moving the mouse every 5 minutes, but got sick and tired of it after a while.

It has to do with the system going into suspend or idle or whatever during compile.

Wow. Thats odd.

Well, creative problems need a creative solution...

Go find something that vibrates, shakes, moves, or otherwise can be used to make continues motion, and tape it to the mouse That'll keep bootstrap running without you. And once its done maybe you can get the problem fixed.

Either that, or go with the stage 3 and disable the power management features...

Are you using the acpi kernel btw? And the 2004.0 cd image?

I'm using the 2004.0 cd image (the minimal).

ACPI should be on, I'm not doing "noacpi" during boot. I've also tried without it.

Let's say I do a stage 3, could I go back and re-run the bootstrap and compile everything to fit my system? That's kinda why I wanted to use Gentoo, and if I can't go back and re-do everything then I might as well stay with RedHat

Ok. So here's what ya do

Install your stage 3 gentoo. Don't define any extra use flags.

Get the system and X and everything you need going and working, so that it doesnt shut down every 5minutes.

Load it up without x running, and rmmod everything you don't need for the system to run.

Edit the /etc/make.conf so that its got all the use flags, compile options and optimizations you want.

Save the changes, and start with a..

emerge -e system

That'll rebuild the system with your use flags

then

emerge -s world

That'll rebuild the rest with your use flags

Sweet, I'll try that out tonight!

Thank you VERY much, I appreciate it!

I'm on day 3 of my emerge -e world... lol. Course, i defined a lot of use flags because I wanted a million features compiled in for my hardware...

i recenlty read that -noacpi on boot option solves that problem

i got a Medion