Boot Manager shows on every startup - Win 10 Guest

[ppromanoo]

I am using VMWare Workstation for personal use. I've created a brand new image and installed a guest Windows 10 Professional with a valid license and the ISO from the MSDN website.

My host OS is also Windows 10 Professional.

Every time I start the VM, the Boot Manager screen shows and I have to manually select "Boot Normally".

This is obviously annoying as I'd like the VM to startup and get the OS running without any click.

Note:

Once my image was created, I installed some applications and turned it off. Having this base image, I've moved it to another folder and also created a copy as a backup. When I re-started the VM, I selected "I've moved it". That was the first time I had to actually re-start it, so I don't know if having the Boot Manager show at every startup is related to it.

Any ideas what I should do?

Thanks, Paolo

[webbs1]

Hello,

I have the same problem. The VM is a new build of a  WIN Server 2016.

VMware Workstation 15.

The "boot manager" srcreen appears every time I boot the VM (not at resume) and only if I quit with ENTER, the standard boot continues. Else it waits endlessly.

Whatever the delay option (5000) is  in the .vmx. or not.

Do you have a solution meanwhile ?

Does everyone have a solution for ?

[webbs1]

Problem solved

An image named "autoinst.flp" was mounted in the floppy drive.

It  started first an loaded the boot manager to prompt

Virtual floppy was set to "auto detect" now it works.

[LostPilot]

Thanks for this. I can confirm this solved the problem!

[Mits2020]

  Why this happens is explained in this page VMware Continuum - Easy install  by continuum​

If the wizard detects a known OS it automatically creates a Floppy-image and creates a silent-installation answer file.

This is why I avoid easy installs and select custom install even when the guest OS iso is well-supported by Workstation.