[Bug 260735] 1b33aa1f5f99e1270d526ffa5b652250ec80a7ef (amd64 UEFI loader: stop copying staging area to 2M physical) maybe not effective in some cases

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Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2021 01:21:07 UTC
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=260735

--- Comment #3 from Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org> ---
Oh, more details from the forum post:

> I installed the system from 
> FreeBSD-13.0-STABLE-amd64-20211125-354988ca3f9-248228-memstick as 13.0-RELEASE
> ... After all was set up, I mounted the EFI partition and copied
> /boot/loader.efi to /EFI/BOOT/BOOTx64.efi there, thereby making the system
> bootable both in CSM and EFI modes.

so the install was done in CSM mode and loader.efi was copied to support UEFI
boot.

> After the FreeBSD boot screen, the system displayed the framebuffer information
> and froze all output to the screen, while silently continuing with the boot
> process. After a few second I could SSH into the system.

So the issue here is independent of the 2M staging copy, as the system does
boot correctly.

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