Douglas thanks for your prompt replay. I just finished testing the stick in the box and
it works. As you indicated this must be a "qemu" limitation which I am not
going to pursue. I am more interested in F-9.
Regards,
MAML
----- Original Message -----
From: Douglas McClendon <dmc.fedora(a)filteredperception.org>
To: fedora-livecd-list(a)redhat.com
Sent: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 23:02:34 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: [Fedora-livecd-list] F9 Live USB stick problem
ergodic wrote:
---An attempt to test F-9 Live from USB Stick failed with the
following results:
This is a current limitation of qemu (at least). You could try booting
on real hardware that is known to work with f8 and livecd-iso-to-disk.
Also, what you probably meant to do (if it would have worked, which it
won't), is '-hda /dev/sdd', not '-hda /dev/sdd1'.
I also really wanted to be able to test liveusb under qemu. I vaguely
recall my googling/qemu-devel list searching yielded the fact that it
might have even worked on an older version, but has regressed.
You might try googling for the issue, and then perhaps posing the
question on qemu-devel as to why it doesn't work.
Or, a better way to start this response would have been - did you try
the same thing with an f8 liveusb and did it work? Probably you should
try that before asking qemu-devel, but I'm pretty sure my recollection
of the situation was accurate.
-dmc
# livecd-iso-to-disk /home/ml/Fedora-9-Alpha-Live-x86_64/Fedora-9-Alpha-Live-x86_64.iso
/dev/sdd1
Verifying image...
/home/ml/Fedora-9-Alpha-Live-x86_64/Fedora-9-Alpha-Live-x86_64.iso:
1149f84da5e45a818af342498581e0c6
Fragment sums: 9fcbb8dced6ec5174f3b85ac6e85c2f13496d8115cbbb02b6ff1783e9584
Fragment count: 20
Percent complete: 100.0% Fragment[20/20] -> OK
100.0
The media check is complete, the result is: PASS.
It is OK to use this media.
Copying live image to USB stick
Updating boot config file
Installing boot loader
USB stick set up as live image!
---Then tested with qemu:
# qemu -hda /dev/sdd1 -m 256 -std-vga
No protocol specified
No protocol specified
Could not initialize SDL - exiting
--- Box is Asus P5K Mobo with Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4GHZ, 2GB Mem. Running F-8.
Your help will be appreciated.
Thanks,
M. A. MacLain
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