[OmniOS-discuss] Installer dependency on a Floppy

[Schweiss, Chip]

On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 3:17 PM, Jim Oltman <jim.oltman at gmail.com> wrote:

> On ESXi, I had to add the floppy controller in order to get past the panic.
>

Same here.  Unfortunately this is real hardware with no floppy controller
of any kind.   Even the IPMI has dropped the virtual floppy.



> On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 2:04 PM, Schweiss, Chip <chip at innovates.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Started an installation a new Haswell based Supermicro server.  (*X10DRU-i+
>> *
>> <http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/C600/X10DRU-i_.cfm>motherboard)
>>
>>
>> The floppy controller is completely gone from these systems and causing
>> the installer to panic when loading.
>>
>> Anyone aware of a workaround?
>>
>> -Chip
>>
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