Dell R630 unable to detect USB, can't boot

[Hans Petter Selasky]

On 02/13/18 19:52, Lee Brown wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 6:00 AM, Hans Petter Selasky <hps at selasky.org>
> wrote:
> 
>> On 02/13/18 14:45, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
>>
>>> On 02/04/18 23:47, Lee Brown wrote:
>>>
>>>> Booting FreeBSD11.1-RELENG from a USB stick, loader works fine keyboard
>>>> allows selection, kernel loads and starts OK, gets as far as detecting
>>>> USB
>>>> devices and stops there.  imgur <https://imgur.com/a/psn0H> for a
>>>> screenshot.  Tried safe mode same occurrence.
>>>>
>>>> CDROM is via a USB, so that's a no go and I've not had luck booting UEFI
>>>> iSCSI nor PXE yet, so I'm stuck without a keyboard (no PS/2 connectors)
>>>> or
>>>> essentially any boot media.
>>>>
>>>> For reference Xen 7.2 is running fine so at first blush it's not faulty
>>>> hardware.
>>>> USB3 mode on and off (ie force USB2) in the BIOS makes no difference.
>>>> All Firmwares current.
>>>>
>>>> Any suggestions on how to move forward with this?  I tried turning on
>>>> verbose mode, but I'm not sure how to capture that nor where to look.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> USB_ERR_TIMEOUT might be an indication of a PCI IRQ issue.
>>>
>>>
>> Try to set:
>>
>> hw.usb.xhci.use_polling=1
>>
>> from the loader as a temporary quirk. Then try to dump information about
>> IRQ's like "vmstat -i" "dmesg" and so on.
>>
>> --HPS
>>
>> Thanks Hans, but unfortunately that made no difference.  Here's my full
> loader.conf
> 
> vfs.mountroot.timeout="10"
> boot_multicons="YES"
> boot_serial="YES"
> comconsole_speed="115200"
> console="comconsole,efi"
> kern.cam.boot_delay="10000"
> hw.usb.xhci.use_polling=1

Did you enable USB 3.0 in the BIOS when trying this?

--HPS