On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 4:02 PM, David Vasek <va...@fido.cz> wrote: > On Sat, 30 May 2009, Donald Allen wrote: > >> Attempting to boot my Thinkstation S10 with a cd made from >> amd64/install45.iso results in >> >> uhci3: host system error >> uhci3: host controller process error >> uhci3: host controller halted >> >> The machine has a quad-core Intel processor, 4 Gb memory, 2 146 Gb SAS >> drives on an LSI raid controller set up as a raid 0. It's plugged into >> a Raritan Switchman KVM. I had no trouble installing Linux and later >> FreeBSD on this machine. From what I've seen thus far of OpenBSD, I >> prefer it to anything else. But this is obviously a showstopper if I >> can't boot the install cd. Anyone have any ideas? > > Thinkstation S10 seems to be based on Intel X38 chipset. It has some special > features regarding USB. > http://www.intel.com/Products/Desktop/Chipsets/X38/X38-overview.htm > > Possibly you need to enable the fourth USB port fully in the BIOS Setup? > Just my guess.
The BIOS doesn't appear to give you such fine-grained control over which USB ports are enabled/disabled. There's a big hammer (all USB ports), and a smaller hammer (the "front" ports). > > If USB support is not necessary for your install, you can go to UKC from the > boot prompt (see Boot-Time Configuration in the FAQ) and disable the uhci(4) > driver there. If you boot and install successfully, it will allow you to > send 'dmesg' and 'pcidump -v' output here for kind people to be able to help > you, if still needed. Using the UKC (which I didn't know about) to disable uhci has allowed me to boot the kernel for installation and then the installed kernel. I'm still setting the system up, so don't know if I have enough USB stuff working for the system to be usable (the keyboard works; haven't gotten to X and the mouse yet). I will report when I'm done. Thanks very much for your help. /Don > > Regards, > David
