Win98 guest only boots in safe mode

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it's a freshly installed win98 first edition in vbox 3.2.10 r66896, host machine is gentoo x86.

it shows the windows 98 startup screen, the resolution changes slightly and the screen goes black like it's about to work - and a second later the entire machine just shuts down without warning.

booting into safe mode works a-okay. I've fiddled with various options in vbox to no avail.

edit: the system "State" or whatever you'd call it says "aborted" after it shuts down like that.

edit: tail of the machine's log:

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00:00:11.596 NAT: DHCP offered IP address 10.0.2.15
00:00:11.661 NAT: DHCP offered IP address 10.0.2.15
00:00:13.146 Display::handleDisplayResize(): uScreenId = 0, pvVRAM=00000000 w=72                                                           0 h=400 bpp=0 cbLine=0x0
00:00:13.469 Guest Log: BIOS: floppy: drive>1 || head>1 ...
00:00:13.470 Guest Log: BIOS: floppy: drive>1 || head>1 ...
00:00:13.470 Guest Log: BIOS: floppy: drive>1 || head>1 ...
00:00:13.470 Guest Log: BIOS: floppy: drive>1 || head>1 ...
00:00:13.470 Guest Log: BIOS: floppy: drive>1 || head>1 ...
00:00:13.470 Guest Log: BIOS: floppy: drive>1 || head>1 ...
00:00:14.910 PIIX3 ATA: LUN#2: performing device RESET

[caibbor]

changed processor to PIIx-3 and it works now.

didn't see that option before..