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

[Michael Rasmussen]

Any available BIOS upgrade?

On August 5, 2016 3:55:53 PM GMT+02:00, Krzysztof Grzempa <grzempek at gmail.com> wrote:
>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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