However, I do not want to install MS-DOS. I booted to the MS-DOS command line, ran FDISK to create a primary partition, and FORMAT C: to create a FAT12 file system. In the BIOS setup of the emulated machine, I changed the booting order to start with the floppy. I mounted the DOS boot image as ImDisk Virtual Disk in Windows Explorer context menu and copied the Grub4DOS files BOOTLACE.COM and GRLDR onto it. As new primary master hard disk, I created a 10 MiB type 01 fixed-sized VHD image.
'Intel Premiere/PCI' with 'Pentium OverDrive 133' CPU and AMI BIOS. In PCem, I tested various machines, e.g.
While I'm pretty content with VirtualBox and Qemu, I also want to get acquainted with the other virtualizers and emulators around.Īnd ImDisk Toolkit to access virtual disks:
Do I observe correctly that it is not possible to boot Grub4DOS from VHD in PCem due to a gate A20 hickup?
