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 <c...@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 <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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