[mdlug] Moving to Debian 64bit - Lessons Learned?

[Robert Adkins]

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> [mailto:mdlug-bounces at mdlug.org] On Behalf Of Ingles, Raymond
> Sent: Friday, July 31, 2009 11:15 AM
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> Subject: Re: [mdlug] Moving to Debian 64bit - Lessons Learned?
> 
> > From: Robert Adkins
> 
> 
> >   I think that there is another Open Source Virtual Machine package
> out
> > there too. I don't recall the name at the moment, if I have 
> some time 
> > later, I'll look it up.
> 
>  There's a couple. Bochs & QEMU are two I can think of, both 
> open source. I'd been using QEMU for a while - no 3D, but it 
> ran Win98 for some old games I have.
> 
>  However, going from Ubuntu 8.10 to 9.04 broke QEMU. My Win98 
> virtual machine won't boot anymore. Very irritating. I'm 
> still poking at it...
> it looks like some underlying hardware representation changed 
> and the settings the hosted Win98 has won't work.
> 
>  I might switch to Bochs or even VMWare player - having 
> something that worked break later on is not fun.
> 
>  Sincerely,
> 
>  Ray Ingles                                               
> (313) 227-2317
> 

  This is what you need to do then:

  Boot your Win98 VM into Safe Mode, this won't install the drivers that are
causing it to crap out, if that is what the problem is. When you get it into
safe mode, you will need to remove all the drivers for the IDE Controllers,
Video Card, etc., etc. (Assuming that you get the Win98 VM to boot, but
bluescreen.)

  You get into safe mode my mashing the F8 key continually while the VM is
booting, after the BIOS Screen and before the Windows Splash screeen pops
up. It will give you a menu list to choose from.

  Then reboot the win98 VM into normal mode and it should recognize the new
hardware and go through the paces of installing the proper drivers.

  I used to do that all the time when upgrading hardware, it's still
possible to do this with Windows XP, but you have to boot it on the existing
hardware first, then delete all the drivers, shut it straight down AND then
move the disk to the new mainboard and boot into XP.

  -Rob