# [OmniOS-discuss] Installer dependency on a Floppy

Schweiss, Chip chip at innovates.com
Tue Nov 25 22:12:29 UTC 2014

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    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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