[OmniOS-discuss] Installer dependency on a Floppy

[Dan McDonald]

> On Nov 25, 2014, at 5:12 PM, Schweiss, Chip <chip at innovates.com> wrote:
> 
> 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.

Is it specifically x2apic?

One thing every illumos user SHOULD/MUST disable in the BIOS is deep-C-states.  Maybe that's it, or perhaps the IOMMU.  There's a blog post by Jeff Sipek that's relevant:

	http://blahg.josefsipek.net/?p=488

Dan