32 bit live Xfce ISO won't boot in kvm

[Dennis Gilmore]

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On Sat, 10 Mar 2012 12:07:53 -0800
Todd And Margo Chester <toddandmargo at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 03/10/2012 06:19 AM, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
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> > On Fri, 09 Mar 2012 16:17:58 -0800
> > Todd And Margo Chester<toddandmargo at gmail.com>  wrote:
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> >> 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
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