Subject: Re: big YAY to current and vmware (fat finger trouble)
To: George Michaelson <ggm@apnic.net>
From: Luke Mewburn <lukem@NetBSD.org>
List: current-users
Date: 10/24/2005 12:01:53
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On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 10:57:56AM +1000, George Michaelson wrote:
| when it boots, the vmware BIOS finds an empty hd, then falls to
| the CD-ROM, missing the second IDE (the problem with vmware here
| is you can't easily tell it to boot of CD first, and it was
| finding the bootblocks of the raw disk, until I made it the
| second IDE drive behind an empty Vmware file-backed HD image)
One of the newer VMware Workstation releases (4.5.2 ?) added the
ability to change the boot order on a per-boot basis.
I found this to be very handy.
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