F9 Live USB stick problem

[ergodic]

---An attempt to test F-9 Live from USB Stick failed with the following results:  


# 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

[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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[Jeremy Katz]

On Mon, 2008-03-10 at 22:02 -0500, Douglas McClendon wrote:
>  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'. 
It should work -- I do it relatively often to test things out

Jeremy

[Douglas McClendon]

Jeremy Katz wrote:
>  On Mon, 2008-03-10 at 22:02 -0500, Douglas McClendon wrote:
> > 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'.
>  
>  It should work -- I do it relatively often to test things out 
cool.  It has definitely been months since I last tried, so presumably 
they fixed the bug I was running into.  Of course, an even better 
improvement would be <censored due to conflict of interest> :)

-dmc

[ergodic]

Jeremy thanks for your help. I will be away for the next few days.  As soon as I return I
will try your suggestions.

Regards,

MAML
----- Original Message -----
From: Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com&gt;
To: fedora-livecd-list(a)redhat.com
Sent: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 23:15:04 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: [Fedora-livecd-list] F9 Live USB stick problem

On Mon, 2008-03-10 at 22:02 -0500, Douglas McClendon wrote:
>  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'. 
It should work -- I do it relatively often to test things out

Jeremy

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[ergodic]

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&gt;
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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[Jeremy Katz]

On Mon, 2008-03-10 at 22:15 -0400, ergodic wrote:
>  # qemu -hda /dev/sdd1 -m 256 -std-vga
>  No protocol specified
>  No protocol specified
>  Could not initialize SDL - exiting 
As dmc says, you'll want to use -hda /dev/sdd but the bigger problem is
your last line.  The user you're running as can't access X to actually
do the display.  So you'll either need to give it access via xauth or
use -vnc and connect via vnc

Jeremy