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

[Richard Skelton]

Hi Krzysztof,
This may work for you :-
http://www.ebuyer.com/184688-startech-4-port-pci-express-low-profile-usb2-0-card-pexusb4dp

Krzysztof Grzempa 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
> <mailto: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
>     <https://github.com/gdamore/illumos-core/issues/107>
>
>     2016-08-04 0:03 GMT+02:00 Guenther Alka <alka at hfg-gmuend.de
>     <mailto: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 <mailto:eric.sproul at circonus.com>>:
>>
>>             On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 4:18 PM, Krzysztof Grzempa
>>             <grzempek at gmail.com <mailto: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
>>             <https://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/C236_C232/X11SSM-F.cfm>
>>
>>
>>
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