Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 09:47:42 +0300 (WET) From: Evren Yurtesen <eyurtese@turkuamk.fi> To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vmware and win98 Message-ID: <Pine.A41.4.10.10205310927030.6478-100000@bessel.tekniikka.turkuamk.fi> In-Reply-To: <E17DfgZ-0006q2-00@roam.psg.com>
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Well I boot with win98 floppy and I have pretty simple vmware configuration. It looks like this #!/usr/local/lib/vmware/bin/vmware config.version = 2 # Floppy floppy0.present = TRUE floppy0.fileName = /dev/fd0 floppy0.startConnected = TRUE # Memory size memsize = 32 # Log file log.fileName = /home/staff/yurtesen/vmware/win98/win98.log # Hints guestOS = "win98" ------------------------------------------------ The windows 98 starts to boot normally and the startup menu comes then I do a shift-f5 to skip loading drivers etc. Then I see Microsoft(R) Windows 98 (C)Copyright Microsoft Corp 1981-1998 thats all it doesnt get any further, I tried it with different configurations when I had hard drive etc. configured but it is always the same. Here is something from the log also May 31 09:42:45: Booting virtual machine May 31 09:42:45: May 31 09:42:47: VBE call 0x4f02 bx 0x0007 cx 0x03d5 es 0xffff di 0x0000 May 31 09:42:47: VBE: VGA Mode switch to 7 May 31 09:42:47: VBE call 0x4f02 bx 0x0003 cx 0x03c2 es 0xffff di 0x0000 May 31 09:42:47: VBE: VGA Mode switch to 3 May 31 09:42:47: VBE call 0x4f02 bx 0x0012 cx 0x03b5 es 0x01c1 di 0x7b96 May 31 09:42:47: VBE: VGA Mode switch to 18 May 31 09:42:49: NOT TESTED (warning) F(135):981 May 31 09:42:53: VBE call 0x4f02 bx 0x0003 cx 0x0531 es 0x6888 di 0x69c1 May 31 09:42:53: VBE: VGA Mode switch to 3 May 31 09:43:08: VBE call 0x4f02 bx 0x0003 cx 0x0003 es 0x0001 di 0x0000 May 31 09:43:08: VBE: VGA Mode switch to 3 May 31 09:43:26: Floppy: Read with Strange Geometry. Max Sector: 0x19 May 31 09:43:26: Floppy: Read with Strange Geometry. Max Sector: 0x19 May 31 09:43:39: NOT TESTED (warning) F(135):981 ------------------- I tried to boot from a real floppy and a image file later on. It didnt help at all. My friend told me that he had the same problem and he couldnt solve it but he could install win2000 instead On Thu, 30 May 2002, Randy Bush wrote: > > I am trying to run win98 under vmware but it seems to be impossible even a > > win98 boot floppy doesnt boot! what might be wrong? did anybody have the > > same? > > if you wish diagnostic help, you might be more specific about the symptoms > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message
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