01:26:28 <shmorg83> I went into the BIOS and completely disabled USB (used PS/2 adapter for my usb keyboard) and everything worked
01:28:30 <shmorg83> since I just want this as something to ssh into over the network , that will be OK
01:59:42 <sommerfeld> probably some quirk of the usb controller on that specific platform that FreeBSD can cope with and which we don't handle.
04:14:37 <shmorg83> yes and probably wasn't tested just due to not being a popular platform
04:14:54 <shmorg83> that advice was the clue I needed to figure it out
22:02:43 <tsoome> xhci is usb3, and yes, there is known issue about usb3 + boot disk.
22:05:02 <tsoome> https://www.illumos.org/issues/15502... altho this one does behave different.
22:05:03 <fenix> → BUG 15502: 'Device is gone' error when booting from USB3.0+ disks (New) | https://code.illumos.org/c/illumos-gate/+/2731