vmware ESXI 6.5 - No /boot/loader - FreeBSD 12.x - 13.0

Hello.... I have a serious problem. Was running ESXI 6.0, and recently upgraded my environment to ESXI 6.5. I never needed to take the VM down since with HA I was able to migrate my VMs over to the new environment and ESXI 6.5 hosts. Running FreeBSD 12.0 and needed to do a restart on one of my Freebsd 12.0 VMs and now getting "No /boot/loader"! The VM is doing BIOS booting and is an MBR disk. Testing a brand new install using FreeBSD 13 results in the same issue (EFI works). As I have several FreeBSD 12.x in this environment I'd guess whenever I need to reboot one of them I'm going to have this issue again. It's obviously something screwy with ESXI BIOS and bootup. I also tried loading the loader and the kernel direct without success. All the data is there as I can mount the drive on another VM still running. Any ideas?
 

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