Live CD won't boot

[jimerman]

I just downloaded the latest desktop live CD image, burned it to a CD, and tried to boot it on my Dell Optiplex 160L. When I pick Start Fedora, I get some lines of really scrunched text that are hard to read, but I think it says:

only detected on i686 CPU.6 64 CPU, but only detected on i686 CPU.6-64 CPU but ropriate for your CPU... and more stuff. Any ideas?

[BBQdave]

Originally Posted by jimerman

I just downloaded the latest desktop live CD image, burned it to a CD, and tried to boot it on my Dell Optiplex 160L. When I pick Start Fedora, I get some lines of really scrunched text that are hard to read, but I think it says:

only detected on i686 CPU.6 64 CPU, but only detected on i686 CPU.6-64 CPU but ropriate for your CPU... and more stuff. Any ideas?

OK

What hardware are you installing to (mac, 32-bit pc, 64-bit pc). If you burned the iso in mac, should have no issues (or at least I have had no issues burning iso's on a legacy eMac).

[george_toolan]

Apparently your computer only supports 32 bit operating systems. Please try again with the 32 bit version of the LiveCD and the Desktop Environment of your choosing.

[jimerman]

It is a Dell Optiplex 160L, Pentium 4. The image I downloaded says x86_x64, so I figured it would work on both. Let me try to locate a X86-only image. Thanks for the post! I'll update results.

[george_toolan]

No, it only handles x86_x64 and that's 64 bit ;-)

The 32 bit packages and isos are called i686 like this one http://download.fedoraproject.org/pu...ve-Desktop.iso

[jimerman]

OK, that did it. I did have a strange experience though, after installation and reboot, during the registration it gave me a screen to create a user account. It wouldn't respond to the keyboard, so I couldn't type anything. I had to click Next to continue, and then add a user through the admin interface.

Thanks for the help!