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 <c...@innovates.com> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 3:34 PM, Paul B. Henson <hen...@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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