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

Richard Skelton skeltonr at btconnect.com
Fri Aug 5 14:25:47 UTC 2016

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    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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