Nick, Just to confirm, you’ve set your console to VGA in the grub menu?
This is from the CoaL install docs in https://github.com/joyent/triton, but it applies any time you’re using a local console: > Press 'c' to go to the command line for GRUB. > > By default, the OS will redirect the console to ttyb which is fine for > production but needs to be changed for CoaL. While in the command line: > > grub> variable os_console vga —Casey > On Oct 8, 2016, at 8:39 PM, Nick Hall <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Sat, Oct 8, 2016 at 10:33 PM, Ian Collins <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > 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. > > > There are 4 USB 2.0 ports on the back and one in front. I had the same > thought -- there is an internal USB port so I tried disabling all the other > USB ports (which the BIOS lets you do), booting off the internal port and > then switching the keyboard on that port once it was booted. Didn't work. The > manual isn't clear on if that internal port is 2.0 or 3.0 but there is a > review on StorageReview.com that indicates that it is USB 3.0. It seems like > if this is really a USB 3.0 problem it is going to affect a bunch of Dell's > recent servers (and probably others). Thanks, > > Nick > > smartos-discuss | Archives > <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now> > <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/26887334-6cdbd07c> | > Modify <https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;> Your Subscription > <http://www.listbox.com/> ------------------------------------------- smartos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/25769125-55cfbc00 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=25769125&id_secret=25769125-7688e9fb Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
