`<div dir="ltr">Beginning to suspect this is something else. OpenIndiana's ISO panics also. It works on VMware without a floppy.<br><br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 3:41 PM, Schweiss, Chip <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chip@innovates.com" target="_blank">chip@innovates.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 3:34 PM, Paul B. Henson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:henson@acm.org" target="_blank">henson@acm.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span>On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 03:04:35PM -0600, Schweiss, Chip wrote:<br>
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> The floppy controller is completely gone from these systems and causing the<br>
> installer to panic when loading.<br>
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> Anyone aware of a workaround?<br>
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</span>Check the BIOS and see if it says anything about a floppy. For vmware<br>
guests, even if you don't have a virtual floppy configured, the BIOS<br>
still shows that a floppy is installed. Most people recommend adding a<br>
virtual floppy to work around the issue, but you can also go into the<br>
virtual BIOS and change the floppy to not installed, which also allows<br>
the installer to work.<br>
<br>
So if the BIOS mentions floppies, make sure they're configured as not<br>
installed...<br></blockquote><div><br></div></div></div><div>That was my first place to look. Floppy is truly non-existent. <br><br></div><div>I just tried plugging a USB floppy in. That didn't help either.<br></div></div><br></div></div>
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