[vbox-dev] VirtualBox ignoring boot order

[Dan Egli]

On 9/21/2020 2:14 PM, Ivo Smits wrote:
> 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?
>
>

As a matter of fact, yes. I've tested with both the Gentoo and the 
CentOS 8 discs. Both exhibit the same behavior. If the drive does not 
have Grub installed then it boots from the CD fine. If the drive DOES 
have grub installed, then it ignores the CD.  I'm downloading the newest 
version now so I'll see if this still comes up.


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Dan Egli