[tlinux-users:07493] Anyone having any luck with a Satellite P35?

I just bought a Toshiba P35-6112 and wanted to put Linux on it.

First thing I found was that partitioning based on my plans for added memory caused Linux to crash during boot. I had partitioned my system as follows:

Partition Primary/Logical Size Mount
1 Primary 128 MB /boot
2 Primary 4 GB swap (I only have 512 MB physical, but plan to upgrade to 2 GB)
3 Logical 10 GB /home
4 Logical 5 GB /var
5 Logical 5 GB /tmp
6 Logical 75.9 GB /

Some experimenting showed that, after creating the partitions, then deleting the swap partition and creating a swap partition of 1.4 GB in its place and leaving a 2.6 GB unpartitioned space, I was able to boot successfully.

Second thing I found was that Grub doesn't play well. I still havent solved this problem. Basically, issuing 'shutdown -r -t 0 now' results in the screen going black, but the blue power light staying on. I have to power down by holding down the power button for a short time, then power back up in order to boot. I don't know if anyone has found a solution to this yet or not, but it's still plaguing me.

Third thing I found, after finding out that the basic install from the 108 MB mini-cdrom ISO image doesn't include wireless network capability, was that the Toshiba Restoration CD doesn't overwrite the MBR. Grub kept trying to boot so it was failing since it could no longer find the /boot partition. I had to purchase a separate copy of Windows XP in order to get the MBR rewritten so I could boot Windows XP.

Does anyone have good instructions for installing and recompiling the 2.6 Kernel to include SMP and the HT-aware scheduler? Does anyone have a fix for the Grub reboot problem?

Thanks in advance for any assistance.