Bootable ISO?

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Newsgroups: vmware.for-windowsnt.configuration
Date: 2002-02-21 15:20:15 PST

> I'm trying to simulate a bootable CD by substituting a virtual CD (ISO
> image).

Using the Configuration Editor for the CD drive the Connection section allows you to point it to an ISO image on the host. This works fine for me.

Bill Fischofer

Bootable ISO?

When you power on the VM if you go into Setup with F2 you can shuffle the device boot order in the BIOS. Are you saying that if you put the CD-ROM ahead of the hard drive the hard drive still boots first? If yes, I'd say you found a bug.

Bill Fischofer

Bootable ISO?

> > When you power on the VM if you go into Setup
> > with F2 you can shuffle the device boot order in...
>
> This is very strange. I have done this and it's worked
> fine for me before. But I just tried it and now it's not
> working any more. I have no idea why!

Silly me! I had turned off the "Connect at power on" checkbox for the CD-ROM drive!!

I turned that checkbox back on, and the VM boots from the CD-ROM ISO image as expected.

Mike