[OmniOS-discuss] Installer dependency on a Floppy

[Schweiss, Chip]

On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 3:34 PM, Paul B. Henson <henson at acm.org> wrote:

> 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...
>

That was my first place to look.    Floppy is truly non-existent.

I just tried plugging a USB floppy in.  That didn't help either.
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