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On 06-Aug-01 Thomas Bishop wrote:
Two suggestions:
1. Make sure that VMWare is configured to start with "floppy connected".
2. Check that the floppy really is bootable:
Been there, done that, except for doing the "!". Always thought that was along the lines of "not". I'll give it a try.
I beg your pardon -- you are right! Yes, if there is NO "!" then
the floppy should be bootable; if there is a "!" then it isn't.
Pity the VMWare Help isn't helpful about this.
(I'd managed to confuse myself by overlooking that I a bootable CD in the
drive at the time I tried to boot from floppy; the floppy boot failed
-- nothing happened, maybe a duff floppy -- so I gave the floppy BOOT
entry a "!" and it booted -- but off the CD!).
Anyway, I just powered up my Win98 VM with the original SuSE boot floppy
in the drive, and it booted off the SuSE floppy; I then put the "!" on the
floppy and it booted into Win98. Then I created a new VM for Linux and
switched that on; it again booted off the floppy.
So I don't know what the problem is with your setup. (I suppose you've
made sure that the boot order is appropriate, i.e. you've moved the
floppy above the other devices).
Sorry about the confusion.
Ted.
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