At this point I abandoned the boot floppy and cdrom iso and tried a bootable iso (the Second Edition OEM Full is a bootable cd, from )Īt the point where is tries to load MSCDEX, it also fails. … well that didn’t work either, it still can’t load the drivers for the cdrom iso.

Press Esc when prompted to get the boot menu and select the floppy:Īfter rebooting now we’re got issues where it can’t see the cdrom dirive and the MSCDEX driver is unable to load a driver:Īt this point, I obviously don’t have the right drivers to read from the cdrom iso image, but remembering it worked ok with the Windows 95 boot disk, I booted from that floppy images and selected the NEC driver which worked before: This disk image is currently unformatted, so we get the messages about formatting it with fdisk first before continuing:įrom the fdisk menu select option 1 to create a DOS Primary partition:Īfter rebooting, the VM attempts to boot from c: but it’s still blank at this point, this was the same issue during the Windows 95 install too. Now booting up we get the install menu from the boot floppy:

We’ll add a floppy for the boot disk, a cdrom iso, and then we can correctly boot: On the next page you can again configure the boot iso, but since the Windows 98 iso I have is not bootable and we need to use a boot floppy, check the ‘Skip ISO boot’ option instead. What I found did work was to avoid using the Windows option on the first page of dialogs, and use the Custom/Other option instead. After testing different options, I found that the default option in the VM setup menus to add a boot iso apparently assumes that iso is actually bootable, and then if it’s not it doesn’t even seem to try booting from the floppy, and strangely reports the error “Boot failed: could not read the boot disk” A quick search on the UTM project’s github site didn’t find any similar issues. Next I tried 4.0.0 beta and had the same issue. img floppy images, and none of them would boot. I’m not sure if this is an issue with this 4.0.1 beta, but I tried multiple. up, not matter what option I use, it wouldn’t boot from the floppy disk image: Next I added a removable disk, type floppy, and attached a Windows 98 floppy disk boot image:īooting. Next I configured the VM with i386 emulation, 256MB, and a 1GB disk:: On the next page I configured the Windows 98 iso and disabled the UEFI boot option: Using UTM 4.01 beta, from the first menu I selected the Windows option: I previously played around with the UTM frontend for QEMU on my M1 MacBook Pro, and thought I’d give installing Windows 98 a go. The following config steps maybe useful if you’re running into the same issues, but if you’ve managed to get a Windows 98 working under UTM leave a comment and let me know! Tldr I couldn’t get the boot floppies to recognize the cdrom iso when using QEMU was configured with UTM, but runing QEMU from the shell with the same floppy and cdrom iso imaged worked completely fine.

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