On 10/ 9/16 04:08 PM, Nick Hall wrote:
Hello,
I've installed SmartOS on a couple of servers now, and for my latest
one got a Dell PowerEdge T130, which is a small server. I booted it up
with a SmartOS USB stick to install but it gets stuck at the "press
enter" part of the SmartOS install.
The hardware is stable, as far as I can tell, as I've booted Windows
and Linux and ran CPU & memory stress tests for 1 week solid.
My guess is that something is actually going on with the USB keyboard,
and that the system is still alive. My reason for thinking this is
that if I boot SmartOS in the "noinstall" mode, the keyboard doesn't
work but if I push the power button on the chassis, SmartOS prints
some messages about shutting down and then shuts down the machine
normally, so it is still responding.
Looks like a classic case of USB3 only system..
When things are "stuck", the keyboard has the caps lock and scroll
lock lights illuminated, and pressing the keys will not change the lights.
I have tried 3 different USB keyboards. This server unfortunately does
not have PS/2 ports.
The keyboard works perfectly fine in the BIOS and also in the boot
section of SmartOS where it asks you to choose between the normal
boot, noinstall and KMDB, etc.
If I boot into KMDB mode, the keyboard works fine -- I can type, at
least early on in the process. If I do "continue" so it boots all the
way then there is no response. I'm not really familiar enough with
KMDB debugging to know how to stop it right before the USB driver is
loaded to see if that is where the failure is or not.
I've seen that on a USB3 only system.
I read a recent discussion on the mailing list about a NUC where the
keyboard wasn't working, but that was a machine that had all USB 3.0
ports. This T130 server has a number of USB 2.0 ports, but also a
couple of USB 3.0 ports. I'm plugging both the SmartOS USB key and the
keyboard into the USB 2.0 ports. However, there is no option in the
BIOS to disable USB 3.0.
Bugger.
It uses Intel's C236 chipset.
Which I believe should support USB2 if the BIOS enabled it.
Anything I should try? I'm making the assumption that the keyboard
isn't responding vs the system hanging based on how the power button
makes it shut down gracefully, but perhaps that is a wrong assumption,
I'm not sure. Thanks,
Are there any internal USB2 ports?
--
Ian.
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