[OmniOS-discuss] LTS r151014 installation issue from USB stick

[Krzysztof Grzempa]

Ok, 2 days spent on trying boot this up...

I tried to boot some usb linux distro to check lspci and find it out if i
have 2.0 usb ports as it is in specification (Eric Sproul advice) and i
couldn't do that too!!
I tried vary distros with no luck. The one and only distro which i could
boot up without problem is Debian. That works pretty well with usb2 and
usb3 ports.


On debian i checked usb ports and there are 2.0 capable port.
So this brings me to thought that it is motherboard (ASRock N3700-itx)
fault. I did some search on the net and found some people expieriencing
similiar behaviour, and I even found people that have problems to make usb3
working correctly on windows.
I think this motherboard is using some weird chipset for usb, and thats why
most linux distros can't recognize it. So if linux has problems, Illumos
will have it too surely...

Unfortunatly, the only solution to make this rig running OmniOS is to
install USB2 pci-e card or to boot it up with SATA CD drive.
First option is quite difficult because i cannot find USB2.0 pci-e card on
the market. Second option i will have to buy sata cd drive, but even if i
install OmniOS on it i wont be able to use any USB on my rig...damn.

Regards
Krzysztof

2016-08-04 12:04 GMT+02:00 Krzysztof Grzempa <grzempek at gmail.com>:

> I see that this is not only OmniOS problem, whole Illumos has no USB3
> support at all...
>
> https://github.com/gdamore/illumos-core/issues/107
>
> 2016-08-04 0:03 GMT+02:00 Guenther Alka <alka at hfg-gmuend.de>:
>
>> I was able to install OmniOS on the new SM X11 boards when
>>
>> - using a CD with the .iso
>> with an Sata CD drive
>>
>> bios settings
>> - Advanced > Boot: Install Windows 7 USB support: enabled
>> - Boot > Boot mode: Legacy
>>
>> or
>> you need a pci-e USB 2 card
>>
>> Gea
>>
>>
>> Am 03.08.2016 um 23:00 schrieb Krzysztof Grzempa:
>>
>> Ok, i will check it tommorow...but it shame anyway that 3.0 is not
>> supported. I have no ATA port available on my motherboard so if you're
>> right im stuck..
>>
>> 2016-08-03 22:32 GMT+02:00 Eric Sproul <eric.sproul at circonus.com>:
>>
>>> On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 4:18 PM, Krzysztof Grzempa <grzempek at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> > Ok, i used USB3 port indeed...but i also have 2 USB 2.0, so i tried
>>> luck
>>> > with those....the same effect... :(
>>>
>>> I have a motherboard [1] that claims to have USB 2.0 ports but they
>>> are, in fact, just USB 3.0 ports in disguise. I had to add in a real
>>> USB 2.0 card to get a working console keyboard. And even then, I have
>>> to switch back to the onboard ports to use the keyboard in BIOS. :(
>>>
>>> If you can boot the machine into a Linux LiveCD or something, a look
>>> at `lspci` output could answer whether you have real USB 2.0 or just
>>> USB 3.0 in disguise.  The onboard USB of my board is this:
>>>
>>> 00:14.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-H USB
>>> 3.0 xHCI Controller [8086:a12f] (rev 31)
>>>
>>> Eric
>>>
>>> [1] https://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/
>>> C236_C232/X11SSM-F.cfm
>>>
>>
>>
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