BIOS problems and RC2 · 8. October 2006, 05:24 by Derek Torres
I’ve just successfully installed RC2 on my Gateway 3522GZ using VMWare. This installed first time without any troubles.
Logically, you would expect that this means that it should load on the computer as a primary operating system. I encountered the same error when installing it on the laptop (outside of VMWare); however, I still had a previous partial installation of Vista (RC1) on my laptop which I’ll now try and remove and then try the whole thing again.
UPDATE (8 October 2006): I was unable to install RC2 on my Gateway 3522GZ as the primary OS – I still received a BSOD for the BIOS. However, the BSOD message was considerably shorter than the one I remember finding in RC1.
Windows Vista RC2 due soon Taking care of those partial installations
Are there any special instructions on getting RC2 to work on VMWare?
— Brandon 8 October 2006, 06:10 #
I tried to install RC2 on VMWare Server (free edition) – but it didn’t work. I got an message from Vista saying “Device Driver not found for CD/DVD or USB drive” – then it prompted me to locate the device driver. Any idea why ?
— Sh@h 8 October 2006, 07:26 #
No special instructions. However, I was unable to install RC1 with VMWare or as primary operating system on my Gatway 3522GZ because of a BIOS issue. RC2 worked fine.
Sh@h – I too initially received that message – when I tried to read the ISO file. Once I burned the ISO file to DVD (at a low burn speed), it worked fine.
— Derek 8 October 2006, 19:17 #
Installed Vista RC2 !!! Well I didn’t have a DVD to burn… So I used ‘MagicISO Virtual DVD Manager’ to create a virtual drive and mounted the Vista DVD image. Then used VMWare to connect to the local virtual drive (there is a trick here – local devices cann’t be ‘connected at power on’ – so first start the virtual machine, and then connect the device using VM > Removable Devices > IDE 0:0). This makes Vista boot from the virtual client DVD in the second attempt (1st attempt fails due to non-availability of boot media) – and the installation went without any issues.
— Sh@h 9 October 2006, 05:30 #
You have to install Vista as an ISO in VMware.
— BigDaddy 17 October 2006, 01:29 #