[mythtv-users] ZOTAC IONITX-B-E installation/configuration...

Andrew Close aclose at gmail.com
Fri Jan 1 18:25:45 UTC 2010


On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Jim Stichnoth <stichnot at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 9:42 AM, Andrew Close <aclose at gmail.com> wrote:
>> hi all,
>>
>> i'm having some issues getting my ZOTAC IONITX-B-E frontend to work.
>> i've installed my distro of choice (LinHES) as a FE on two different
>> USB sticks.  installation goes fine and everything appears to be
>> happy; however, when rebooting the system, it just hangs when
>> initializing the kernel.  and on top of that it appears to shut off
>> the USB ports because my mouse and keyboard go dead at that point.  so
>> i'm guessing the USB key is dead as well (it doesn't have any sort of
>> indicator led on in).  i've also tried MythBuntu with the same
>> results, so i don't believe it's a distro specific issue (the kernel
>> hasn't even loaded so how could distro matter?).
>> i'm fairly certain there is a BIOS setting i'm missing or have
>> misconfigured.  in my BIOS i have the USB key selected as the primary
>> boot device.  under the 'Advanced'->'USB Configuration' menu in the
>> BIOS i've tried setting both HiSpeed and FullSpeed settings, Legacy
>> USB Support is enabled, and under the 'USB Mass Storage Device Config'
>> i've tried setting the 'USB Mass Storage Reset Delay' to 10, 20 & 30
>> seconds and tried setting the 'Emulation Type' to both 'Auto' & "Hard
>> Disk'.  the majority of the BIOS settings have been left to their
>> default values, or reset to their defaults.  i've played around with
>> other settings with no luck.  it seems crazy that the BIOS has a boot
>> from USB option and then shuts off USB as it is starting up...  this
>> board (ZOTAC IONITX-B-E) has an AMI BIOS (v02.61) onboard.  i didn't
>> find any info on American Megatrends site to indicate that i needed a
>> BIOS update.
>> unfortunately when booting i don't get far enough into the boot cycle
>> to switch the display from the splash screen to rolling output to see
>> what's going on and then the keyboard locks up/goes away.  and since
>> booting locks i don't have any logs to look at. :)
>> this board does have a PXE Boot option in the BIOS and i'm tempted to
>> try it.  but i figured the USB key setup would be easier to manage for
>> a novice/intermediate Linux user.
>> any suggestions/configurations welcome.  :)
>
> It's possible that your initrd image was created without support for
> USB storage.  When I was doing something like this, I had to add
> "--with=usb_storage" to the mkinitrd command.
>
> I don't know about LinHES, but with MythDora, just having a USB stick
> in the system (regardless of whether I was installing onto it) was
> enough to get usb_storage in the initrd image.

so this may have more to do with how the install image was created in
the ISO i'm using?
i'm installing off a CD which is attached via USB and am installing to
a USB key,  so i do have a USB stick in the system. :)  maybe during
install i can try to pass the --with=usb_storage arg in...

thank you for the suggestion.

-- 
Andrew Close


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