HP Pavilion DV6000

Official handbook for amd64

Initial steps

 * 1) On computer bootup hit to choose boot media and pick CD-DVD
 * 2) Find out your ip address
 * 3) At the prompt update the password and start sshd
 * 4) Log in to your laptop from you regular computer and enjoy comfort of your old known enviroment

Hardware
From the minimal LiveCD lspci, lsscsi, and hdparm give following info

lspci

lsscsi

hdparm -tT /dev/sda

Tools to install ahead
As soon as you sync portage install following packages

Switching to openrc
Make the move early so it will save some reemerging afterwards

Create and add unmasking packages

That would prompt to config file merge so etc-update

Video
Native resolution is 1280x800

Console
uvesafb

eth0
nForce-net CONFIG_FORCEDETH=y

wifi
broadcom