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Thank you - that worked!  I did have to manually reformat the EFI partitions because I think i had corrupted them in my earlier attempts - but I'm now up and working again.

I foolishly did a "zpool upgrade" a while back not realizing that was problematic in freebsd.  We lost power last night for longer than the UPS had battery and I woke up this morning to no internet with a "ZFS - can't find GUID problem" that is related to the boot loader being confused after the pool upgrade.  I was able to get back up and running sorta by booting a live USB and running the importer and using the "zroot" drive option so the pool is still there - but the importer just does the basics like firewall rules.  I have a ton of haproxy and letsencrypt stuff setup that I need to preserve.  A few questions:

1. Does anybody know how to fix the boot loader problem - that seems simplest but the various things I tried didn't seem to work.

2. I wouldn't be against reinstalling particularly because back when I did the initial install many years ago the installer wasn't smart enough to do a mirror ZFS setup but I think it is now - but I'm not that familiar with how the "installer" mode works - is it smart enough to see my previous installation and copy all the configs including the haproxy/acme.sh stuff or will it just do the basics like the live mode did?  If the later, how is the easiest way to manually save that stuff so I don't have to recreate it from scratch?

Advice???  The system in questions running latest greatest 25.1.7_4.

Fiber finally arrived in my neighborhood!  I've been using opnsense for years as a VM in my vmware homelab with both LAN and WAN as vmxnet adapters - never noticed any problems with slow DSL.  Now however, i'm seeing that my throughput is being limited to around 150mbps.  If I plug my d-link consumer grade router in i can get gig speeds, but thru opnsense i can only get the 150 or so.  Is that to be expected, is there anything to do?  Currently everything going to my hypervisors is over 40gb trunked links between my ICX 6610 switch, but each machine has a couple of extra gigabit links on it that i suppose I could passthru directly to the VM to speed things up - but i'm not a fan of pass thru though because sometimes it is flaky and more importantly, it precludes using vmotion to live migrate the VM from one hypervisor to another when doing maintenance, which is important for a router.

May be time to go for a standalone opnsense appliance - what's best for routing symmetric gig these days?