Shoutbox

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Originally posted by ShawnZ

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Originally posted by rm rulz

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Originally posted by ShawnZ

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Originally posted by rm rulz
the VM loads too quickly at the start and i cannot get into the bios

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well that's where you change the boot order...

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yes i realise that but it loads to quickly for me to change it, is there anything else i can do?

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click faster?

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i have about 1/2 a second to click the mouse button to focus on the vm and press F12 at the same time. it just does not work

well... try harder

Well, I know that in Virtual PC (Microsoft), you can choose to use a physical disc drive (CD / DVD) for the virtual drive of your virtual machine. It seems that there's some sort of drop-down menu in VMWare too... are you sure that's set to the correct "real" drive?

in the drop down menu there is no option to change the boot sequence

if you don't have anything on the vm yet, it should go to cd after checking the vhd (unless disabled for some reason in bios)

When the virtual machine boots, press Ctrl-Alt-Ins to send a Ctrl-Alt-Del command. This will reboot VM Player, and bring you back to the BIOS page...

Then just press F2 to change it permanently

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Originally posted by MeEtc
When the virtual machine boots, press Ctrl-Alt-Ins to send a Ctrl-Alt-Del command. This will reboot VM Player, and bring you back to the BIOS page...
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Then just press F2 to change it permanently

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have u actually tried this cus when i tried it it made no difference

EDIT: i actually went into the bios and changed the boot sequence but it still boots from Intel E1000 (and yes i did save before exiting setup)

EDIT 2: I now have screenie showing you i have changed the boot sequence but it still boots from Intel E1000

cos your doing it all wrong enable  legacy emulation then open your vmx file(in notepad) and specfiy a drive letter

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ide0:0.present = "TRUE"
ide0:0.fileName = "Windows XP Professional.vmdk"
ide1:0.present = "TRUE"
ide1:0.fileName = "e:"
ide1:0.deviceType = "cdrom-raw"
ide1:1.present = "TRUE"
ide1:1.fileName = "i:"
ide1:1.deviceType = "cdrom-raw"

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Originally posted by xen0h
cos your doing it all wrong enable  legacy emulation then open your vmx file(in notepad) and specfiy a drive letter

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ide0:0.present = "TRUE"
ide0:0.fileName = "Windows XP Professional.vmdk"
ide1:0.present = "TRUE"
ide1:0.fileName = "e:"
ide1:0.deviceType = "cdrom-raw"
ide1:1.present = "TRUE"
ide1:1.fileName = "i:"
ide1:1.deviceType = "cdrom-raw"

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nope didnt work, still boots from Intel E1000. does anyboody have any idea why it refuses to change boot sequence?

Try disabling the VM's ethernet device.
If that doesn't work, try loading a liveCD iso instead of inserting a physical disc (if that's an option on VMware Player, Ive only used VMware Workstation)