Sun, May 20, 2012 at 5:10 PM, Wolfgang Schechinger <hubah...@gmx.de> wrote: > Der experts, > > may I ask another question: > > Is there a way to make FreeDos ignore that there is a floppy present upon > boot, i.e. force a boot from the harddrive? Again only a problem when running > it in a VM, I think, as on a hard PC, you may set the boot options in the > BIOS. >
Hi. The best option here is not to do this at the operating system level, but at the BIOS level. You mentioned in your email that you can set the BIOS options when booting on a hardware PC. That same BIOS option exists in true virtual machine emulators. If you are using VMWare, VirtualPC, Bochs, or some similar virtual machine emulator, you will have a BIOS present in the virtual machine. When the VM boots, you should see a message to press a key combination (usually f11 or f12) that will bring up the BIOS setup. If you are using a different virtual machine emulator that does not provide a BIOS (such as DOSEmu) then I'm not sure what you can do to ensure FreeDOS boots from hard drive instead of floppy drive, other than not mounting a floppy image on the emulator when you boot it. I hope that helps you. -jh ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
