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Virtualbox won't boot from floppy

Posted: 31. Oct 2010, 01:43
by jbs30000
I tried searching for this before posting, and so far most of what I find is for Linux users.

My floppy drive works just fine on my host computer (PC, Windows 7 64 bit), but when I place a floppy in it and start up Virtualbox it doesn't even attempt to read from my floppy drive. And if I press f12 and explicitly telling to boot from my floppy nothing happens, other than the fatal: no bootable medium found! System halted. error.

It's not that I don't have bootable media, it's that Virtualbox doesn't seem to know that I have an A: drive.

Re: Virtualbox won't boot from floppy

Posted: 31. Oct 2010, 01:51
by Perryg
Did you add a floppy drive in the guests storage section? It is not there by default.

Re: Virtualbox won't boot from floppy

Posted: 31. Oct 2010, 01:52
by jbs30000
I don't see how to add it.

Re: Virtualbox won't boot from floppy

Posted: 31. Oct 2010, 01:53
by jbs30000
Nevermind. I see it now.