How to boot FreeBSD14 without EFI?

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From: Dewayne Geraghty <dewayne_at_heuristicsystems.com.au>
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2024 08:35:13 UTC

I pulled the release i386 and amd64 iso's from 
https://download.freebsd.org/releases/ISO-IMAGES/14.0/ 
<https://download.freebsd.org/releases/ISO-IMAGES/14.0/> and both 
require EFI to boot.

Then I proceeded to download the source for releng14 and did the usual 
build and install steps for an amd64 vdi (virtualbox setup on a Windows 
host).  However I've been unable to boot from either an MBR or a GPT 
scheme.  Clearly I'm missing something. Does anyone have the incantation 
to boot without EFI on either i386 or amd64?

I added WITHOUT_EFI to /etc/srcconf and rebuilt GENERIC but more is 
required...

Also the loader no longer provides vidconsole as a console device.  Has 
vidconsole been replaced with eficonsole?

Regards, Dewayne