Dell R630 unable to detect USB, can't boot

[Lee Brown]

On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 12:56 PM, Hans Petter Selasky <hps at selasky.org>
wrote:

> 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
>
> It was configured with USB3.0 OFF
I just toggled it ON, same result.

I verified the sysctl polling value from the loader before booting