[OmniOS-discuss] Installer dependency on a Floppy

[Paul B. Henson]

On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 03:04:35PM -0600, Schweiss, Chip wrote:

> The floppy controller is completely gone from these systems and causing the
> installer to panic when loading.
> 
> Anyone aware of a workaround?

Check the BIOS and see if it says anything about a floppy. For vmware
guests, even if you don't have a virtual floppy configured, the BIOS
still shows that a floppy is installed. Most people recommend adding a
virtual floppy to work around the issue, but you can also go into the
virtual BIOS and change the floppy to not installed, which also allows
the installer to work.

So if the BIOS mentions floppies, make sure they're configured as not
installed...