[Bug 202730] UEFI boot and console problems on 2008 Mac Pro w/ 10.2-STABLE

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            Bug ID: 202730
           Summary: UEFI boot and console problems on 2008 Mac Pro w/
                    10.2-STABLE
           Product: Base System
           Version: 10.2-STABLE
          Hardware: amd64
                OS: Any
            Status: New
          Severity: Affects Some People
          Priority: ---
         Component: kern
          Assignee: freebsd-bugs at FreeBSD.org
          Reporter: hartzell at alerce.com

I thought that I was having the problem that was solved in Bug 193745, but it
would seem that I am not.

I have a 2008 Mac Pro (NOT a MacBook) that's been happily running
FreeBSD for years via MBR partitioned disks.  When the Mac sees the
MBR partition it kicks in a bunch of bios emulation, which lets
freebsd run.

I've recently been inspired to try the EFI booting stuff.  It has the
attraction of enabling the two extra SATA ports on the motherboard (or
more accurately, not disabling them as the BIOS emulation appears
to...).

I updated my svn repo to include the patches from Bug 193745, built and
installed everything, and then 

        cd /usr/src/release/
        make -DNOPORTS -DNODOC uefi-memstick
        dd if=uefi-memstick.img of=/dev/da0 bs=1m

The memstick booted and the boot sequence displayed in a small window centered
in my large monitor, so I believe that I built everything correctly and that I
am testing these changes.

As before, I end up stuck at

    Booting...
    Start @ 0xffffffff802dfd10

The computer appears to be running, the usb key shows activity on and off for a
few moments then settles down.  If I press&release the power button, the
machine shuts itself down successfully.

I can't think of any way to get a serial console on the older Mac Pro, nor can
I figure out how to ssh into the uefi-memstick image, so I can't tell what it's
doing.

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