Op 12-1-2012 19:03, Ulrich Hansen schreef: > I have written a description of the boot delay caused by the loading of > UIDE.SYS in VirtualBox. > > https://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/freedos/index.php?title=VirtualBox_-_Chapter_8 > > Anybody has an idea how to solve this with free software? Would the > eltorito.sys driver help? I never worked much with CD drives in FreeDOS, so I > am a bit stuck.
Wasn't the solution to enable IO APIC or something like that? So a different enabled chipset. ELTORITO.SYS can help, but only if you configure the VM to start with booting from CD, after which you boot from harddisk. Loading UIDE at runtime instead of boottime is also possible, in some theoretical CDROM.BAT for example @echo off rem load CDEX, without any ISO9660 drivers attached SHSUCDX /D9 /QQ DEVLOAD ELTORITO.SYS /D:FDCD0000 DEVLOAD UIDE.SYS /D:FDCD0001 /N3 /B SHSUCDHD /F:C:\FDBOOTCD.ISO rem add drivers only by one rem change loading order as you like if exist FDCD0000 SHSUCDX /D:FDCD0000,D if exist FDCD0001 SHSUCDX /D:FDCD0001,D if exist SHSU-CDH SHSUCDX /D:SHSU-CDH,D if exist SHSU-CDR SHSUCDX /D:SHSU-CDR,D Alternatives are creating and using an ISO file: OMI.EXE D: C:\FDBOOTCD.ISO Or replacing the CD-driver by the closed-source generic OAKCDROM.SYS or VIDE-CDD.SYS drivers [ http://www.opus.co.tt/dave/indexall.htm ]. Jack's UIDE.SYS driver performs chipset initialisation which is apparently still implemented in a buggy way in the VirtualBox software. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ RSA(R) Conference 2012 Mar 27 - Feb 2 Save $400 by Jan. 27 Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsa-sfdev2dev2 _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
