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Has anyone gotten this to boot? I have tried my (verified) disk on 3 boxen, and it bombs out in one way or another on all 3. I thought it would be fun to give it a spin for shits and grins, but it's proving to be obscenely difficult to even get it booted.

It has worked fine on my machine (using both x86 and x86_64) and on my work machine (x86). What kind of errors are you getting? Did you check the md5 sum of the iso and check the cd after burning it?

Yeah, md5sumed it and it's fine. I don't get any errors, it just freezes in different ways. On one box it just never gets past the "loading sabayon linux" splash. On another, it hangs at the xgl/aiglx choice window. On my lappy the screen goes black as one point, and never comes back. So, no errors to speak of. On the box I want to load it on, I've tried even "text install" and it still loads the splash and freezes.

Weird.

try booting it with the following flags: "genuine noaccelmanager acpi=off" that should force it to use the opensource drivers, disable the accelmanager window, and turn acpi off (which can cause problems sometimes). If that doesn't work hit Alt+F1 or F2 after the kernel is loaded and see what step it stops at, you might be able to hit I and manually control which services it starts.

I installed the most recent mini edition; it booted up just fine. I can't say the same for previous releases (3.25 mini and DVD), however. Maybe a bad burn?

I md5sumed the CD, too, so it's probably a good burn. I'll try the options Cptn suggested this weekend. Thanks for the suggestions!