[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 to

[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. >

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 loa

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, aft

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? Wou

[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 much