On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 4:06 PM, Wolfgang Schechinger <hubah...@gmx.de> wrote: > Hi Jim, > > your suggestion helped: The boot screen (when booting FreeDos in VirtualBox) > normally disappears so quickly, that it actually doesn't show up (visibly) > unless you press F12 while launching the VM. > > This made me realize that I actually need to find a solution to (force to) > drop any mounted floppy image before the VM is booted, to prevent that the > floppy's boot sector is executed. That's what I actually need. > > Best reagrds, > > Wo
Glad that helped! You might consider simply removing the floppy image from the virtual machine definition in VirtualBox when you don't need to boot from floppy. Or, you may want to adjust your BIOS boot order, so that "floppy" appears after "hard drive". When I've worked with virtual machines, that's usually one of the first things I do: set the VM BIOS to boot from hard drive first, then CDROM, then floppy. That way, when I boot my fresh virtual machine using a mounted CD image of FreeDOS or Linux, it boots the CD first (because the hard drive doesn't have anything on it yet, no boot loader.) After the installation is done, if I've forgotten to unmount the CD image from the virtual machine, it doesn't matter because the VM will boot from hard drive anyway (because it now is a valid bootable medium.) -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
