I have a portable 60gb laptop ide drive in an external travel enclosure.

The first partition on the drive is a 100mb fat32 partition that has
syslinux-4.03 installed.

If I reboot my laptop it boots from this device just fine.

But I want to test my syslinux configuration files inside a vm without
having to reboot my laptop,

I followed the instructions posted at
http://www.pendrivelinux.com/boot-a-usb-flash-drive-in-virtualbox/

to create a raw disk vmdk file.

Command completed successfully.

I then modified an existing vm to boot from the raw disk vmdk file
instead of the drive file.

I turned off the usb filter so that it would not try to mount the device twice.

and I booted the vm and I get an error message from the vbox bios that
states "Missing Operating System"

Because I know it works on a physical machine, I know its not the
drive.  Any hints about what I might have done wrong?

I'm running VBox 4.0.4 on a windows 7 64bit host.

Thanks for pointers/advice

Rance

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