[Bug 224562] serial console installer doesn't copy EFI files into EFI partition on target media

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https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=224562

            Bug ID: 224562
           Summary: serial console installer doesn't copy EFI files into
                    EFI partition on target media
           Product: Base System
           Version: CURRENT
          Hardware: arm64
                OS: Any
            Status: New
          Severity: Affects Some People
          Priority: ---
         Component: arm
          Assignee: freebsd-arm at FreeBSD.org
          Reporter: jon at brawn.org

Trying to install on a SoftIron Overdrive 1000 using the "serial" console (in
real life it's USB). The target drive gets partitioned correctly and the
msdosfs and ufs file systems get created, the OS gets copied over to the ufs
partition just fine. Unfortunately, I'm seeing nothing in the msdosfs EFI
partition at all, so the system fails to reboot. Copying the EFI file
hierarchy, such that it is, from the mini USB memory stick image into the
msdosfs EFI partition allows the system to boot correctly.

There are no error messages or warnings from the installer at all.

I used the following memstick image:

  FreeBSD-12.0-CURRENT-arm64-aarch64-20171220-r327038-mini-memstick.img

Here's a (failed) boot log, for what it's worth:

NOTICE:  BL3-1: 
NOTICE:  BL3-1: Built : 14:04:15, Apr  9 2016
INFO:    BL3-1: Initializing runtime services
INFO:    BL3-1: Preparing for EL3 exit to normal world
INFO:    BL3-1: Next image address = 0x8000e80000
INFO:    BL3-1: Next image spsr = 0x3c9
UEFI Interactive Shell v2.1
EDK II
UEFI v2.60 (SoftIron Overdrive 1000, 0x00010000)
Mapping table
      FS0: Alias(s):HD0b65535a1:;BLK1:
         
PciRoot(0x1)/Pci(0x0,0x0)/Sata(0x1,0xFFFF,0x0)/HD(1,GPT,5BA98F8C-E84E-11E7-B174-E0FFF70020A6,0x28,0x64000)
     BLK0: Alias(s):
          PciRoot(0x1)/Pci(0x0,0x0)/Sata(0x1,0xFFFF,0x0)
     BLK2: Alias(s):
         
PciRoot(0x1)/Pci(0x0,0x0)/Sata(0x1,0xFFFF,0x0)/HD(2,GPT,5BAA2436-E84E-11E7-B174-E0FFF70020A6,0x64028,0x73F9BFF8)
     BLK3: Alias(s):
         
PciRoot(0x1)/Pci(0x0,0x0)/Sata(0x1,0xFFFF,0x0)/HD(3,GPT,5BAB79D7-E84E-11E7-B174-E0FFF70020A6,0x74000020,0x706D67)
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