Dell R630 unable to detect USB, can't boot

Hans Petter Selasky hps at selasky.org
Tue Feb 13 13:48:30 UTC 2018


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.

--HPS



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