I am opening this conversation again about CD support in VirtualBox: It is true that the delay of UIDE at boot can be solved by selecting ICH9 and Enable IO APIC in VirtualBox (> System->Motherboard).
Unfortunately this breaks networking in VirtualBox 4.0.12 and 4.1.4. The PCNTPK packet driver v. 1.20 for the PCnet-FAST III (Am79C973) VirtualBox NIC tells us: "PCNTPK-DOS-015:Device not found" Which means [1] that the driver cannot find an Ethernet controller. The driver 2.2 (which is included in FD 1.1beta) seems to install (after some time) but also doesn't work. Choosing another virtual NIC or disabling IO APIC doesn't solve it. There is already a bugreport at the VirtualBox site [2]. It seems to be the fault of the ICH9 virtual chipset. So at the moment you cannot have both with FreeDOS 1.1 in VirtualBox: CD/DVDs and network. regards Ulrich [1] http://ps-2.kev009.com:8081/eprmhtml/epr3a/8498.htm [2] https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/9301 Am 24.07.11 04:29, schrieb Kenneth J. Davis: > On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 11:13 PM, Juan Castro<jccyc1...@gmail.com> wrote: >> The first line (starting with "UIDE.SYS") stays there for 19 seconds. Then >> the second one (starting with "IDE0 Controller") stays there for 49 seconds. >> Then I get that error message. In a real machine, UIDE loads lightning >> quick. >> >> Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/7rI2X.png >> >> Juan > > In your Virtualbox configuration (only tested with just released 4.1, > but may also work with older releases) make sure under > System->Motherboard both ICH9 and Enable IO APIC are selected. This > will allow UIDE to load almost immediately same as in VMWare. Note: > the IO APIC may not be needed, but Virtualbox won't allow selecting > ICH9 without it. I am not sure what this actually changes with the > emulation, but does stop the long delay. Also even with the 4.1.0 > release, UIDE still displays the EDD error for C: and D: drives (BIOS > drives 0x80 and 0x81), but I believe this is another Virtualbox error > - haven't had the time to study Virtualbox's source to see what is > wrong (I had hoped 4.1.0 would fix it since there is supposed to be a > fix with the checksum). > > Jeremy > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Magic Quadrant for Content-Aware Data Loss Prevention > Research study explores the data loss prevention market. Includes in-depth > analysis on the changes within the DLP market, and the criteria used to > evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of these DLP solutions. > http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51385063/ > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2dcopy2 _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
