[Freedos-user] UIDE.SYS delays boot process in VirtualBox

2012-01-12 Thread Ulrich Hansen
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

Re: [Freedos-user] UIDE.SYS delays boot process in VirtualBox

2012-01-12 Thread Bernd Blaauw
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

Re: [Freedos-user] UIDE.SYS delays boot process in VirtualBox

2012-01-12 Thread Jack
Anybody has an idea how to solve this with free software? Would the eltorito.sys driver help? 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

Re: [Freedos-user] UIDE.SYS delays boot process in VirtualBox

2012-01-12 Thread Ulrich Hansen
Am 12.01.2012 um 20:20 schrieb Jack: Loading UIDE at runtime instead of boottime is also possible, in some theoretical CDROM.BAT for example ... Doubtful this would help at all, since UIDE is going to do exactly the same checks of the PCI bus for CD/DVD drives, whenever it gets loaded.

[Freedos-user] Fwd: VirtualBox FreeDOS HowTo

2012-01-12 Thread Ulrich Hansen
Sorry I meant to send this earlier, but accidentally chose the wrong sender address. So it wasn't accepted by the list server. Here it comes again: Am 11.01.2012 um 18:27 schrieb Bernd Blaauw: Op 11-1-2012 0:58, Ulrich Hansen schreef: I have started a VirtualBox HowTo in our FreeDOS wiki.

[Freedos-user] VirtualBox FreeDOS HowTo

2012-01-12 Thread Garry Ricketson
Hello all, I decided to try this, and it is pretty neat, I installed the virtualbox package to Linux Mint 10, and then successfully installed the new FreeDos 1.1 seems pretty good, thanks for makeing this available,.. I hadn't yet installed freedos 1.1 to my real hard drive, because I need