[ltp] vmware 1.1, tp 770ED
Jamie Zawinski
linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com
Fri, 29 Oct 1999 02:26:54 -0700
Zlatko.Baumberger@wdr.com wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I had a similar problem on my box (770X, SuSE6.2 and VMWare 1.1).
>
> It solved after changing the boot-settings in the BIOS of the VMWare.
> Set the floppy-disk (removable device) as second or third boot-device and
> the hard-disk as first.
>
> I think it tried to boot from floppy and after an io-timeout it went to the
> next possible boot-device.
That did it, thanks! Now it boots up quickly.
Windows still can't access the serial port or network under vmware,
though, so until I figure that out, it's still pretty useless to me...
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Jamie Zawinski jwz@jwz.org http://www.jwz.org/
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