[OmniOS-discuss] Installer dependency on a Floppy

[Schweiss, Chip]

X2APCI is the culprit.  Needs to be disabled in the BIOs.  Worked without
the floppy at all.

Hopefully this will be useful to someone else.

-Chip

On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 3:49 PM, Schweiss, Chip <chip at innovates.com> wrote:

> Beginning to suspect this is something else.  OpenIndiana's ISO panics
> also.   It works on VMware without a floppy.
>
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 3:41 PM, Schweiss, Chip <chip at innovates.com>
> wrote:
>
>> 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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