[vbox-dev] VirtualBox ignoring boot order

[Ivo Smits]

There are some CDs that just boot straight to the first harddisk if 
there's a boot record there. I suppose they do this to prevent 
accidental overwriting of an existing OS, or to facilitate continuation 
of the installer even if the CD is not removed after the first stage. 
Some boot code asks whether to boot from harddisk or CD, sometimes with 
a timeout after which it either boots from CD or harddisk automatically, 
but some other CDs may not ask this question and may not even display 
any message at all.

Have you tested this with different bootable CD images?

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Ivo

Op 21-9-2020 om 4:35 schreef Dan Egli:
> I'm wondering about some strange behavior VirtualBox is showing. If 
> you have both a bootable CD and a Bootable hard drive image selected, 
> the CD is NEVER booted. The only way to boot from a CD seems to be 
> when the hard drive does not have boot information. If there IS boot 
> information, then the Hard Disk is ALWAYS the boot source. I've tried 
> everything I can think of. I put the CD above the hard disk in the 
> boot order. I even unselected EVERYTHING EXCEPT the CD drive, and 
> VirtualBox still refuses to boot from a CD if it's hard disk is bootable.
>
> I'd love some advice here, or is this a bug?
>
>
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>
> Dan Egli
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