[Fedora-livecd-list] F9 Live USB stick problem

[Douglas McClendon]

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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