Boot the virtual machine off of the Windows CD

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Karl E. Peterson - 28 Nov 2007 18:13 GMT

Hi --

I'm trying to migrate a physical machine to virtual, and following the Ben's advice
as the usual problems have arisen. This one is throwing me, though...

"Boot the virtual machine off of the Windows CD"
http://blogs.msdn.com/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2004/12/10/279667.aspx

Okay. How? It's a Windows 2000/SP4 VHD, created with WinImage. The boot begins
with the the text-mode b/w progress bar, and just hangs at the point it would
normally flip to graphics-mode. I have a W2KSP4.ISO (d/l'd from MSDN eons ago) that
I told it to attach to, but am not offered any opportunity to boot from it. I know
I'm missing something silly, here. What?

Thanks much... Karl

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Paul Adare - 28 Nov 2007 18:26 GMT

> Hi --
>
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> I told it to attach to, but am not offered any opportunity to boot from it. I know
> I'm missing something silly, here. What?

You'll need to change the boot order to boot from the ISO image before the
hard drive. During the POST make sure that you've clicked inside the window
and then press DEL to access the BIOS. Make the change and then reboot.

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Karl E. Peterson - 28 Nov 2007 19:27 GMT

Hi Paul --

> You'll need to change the boot order to boot from the ISO image before the
> hard drive. During the POST make sure that you've clicked inside the window
> and then press DEL to access the BIOS. Make the change and then reboot.

Well, I thought I'd done that. It's set to floppy, cd, hard drive. F10, Save and
Exit, yes, and then straight through the POST and into the b/w Windows startup
screen. Never offered "Press any key to boot from CD-ROM...".

Hmmmmm, suppose that means this image isn't bootable, and I need to dig out a
physical disc from some dark recess? Ahhhhh! Bingo! The image (actually *looked*
at it in WinImage) was just SP4 alone, not the integrated package. <blush> Found
the right image, captured that, and am now into the setup.

Appreciate the tip on getting into the BIOS, though! Never did that before in VPC.

Thanks... Karl

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