-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 10 Mar 2012 12:07:53 -0800 Todd And Margo Chester <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 03/10/2012 06:19 AM, Dennis Gilmore wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On Fri, 09 Mar 2012 16:17:58 -0800 > > Todd And Margo Chester<[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> Hi All, > >> > >> I can get the 64 bit live cd to boot in KVM (host = SL 6.2 x64) > >> > >> Fedora-16-x86_64-Live-XFCE.iso > >> > >> But, when I switch my CDROM drive to > >> > >> Fedora-16-i686-Live-XFCE.iso > >> > >> Fedora goes through the motions of trying to boot, > >> then dies at > >> > >> Starting SYSV: Late init script for live image.... > >> Started SYSV: Late init script for live image.. > >> Start SYSV: Late init script for live image > >> > >> I tried re-downloading the ISO, no joy. If I burn > >> to a CD and directly boot to it (no virtual machine), > >> the CD does work. > >> > >> Any idea how to fix this? > >> > >> Many thanks, > >> -T > > > > > > How did you set up the vm? > > Same as I did my x86_64, line for line, except architecture was i686 > and I added a USB device. dont change the arch off of x86_64 or KVM will not work correctly. i booted the i686 livecd just fine when the arch was x86_64 i did not try forcing the arch to i686, afaik it should work but will be using qemu and not accelerated. > > > > while i tested on f16 host using kvm and x86_64 as the arch it is > > booting just fine. > > So did mine (x86_64). Sorry I did not make that more clear. > I am having problems with the i686 spin. > > > i get a desktop working in about 15-20 seconds. i > > believe if you set the arch to 1686 or 1386 you actually dont get > > kvm used and just plain qemu which is much much slower > > > > Dennis > > > Is there a way to boot off the Xfce spin, go in to text mode (init 3) > and do the install from there? > > Many thanks, > -T > _______________________________________________ > xfce mailing list > [email protected] > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/xfce -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk9b0oEACgkQkSxm47BaWffu+ACfc40n08nCH+E73fL2wF7TFcCw IPgAn0lRTp50Sa7Cc5GDwnTZhG+rzmcs =ovJX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ xfce mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/xfce
