Failed to load '/boot/loader.efi'

I am trying to configure UEFI loader to boot FreeBSD 12. The UEFI shell prints the following:

Code:
   >> FreeBSD EFI boot block
  Loader path: /boot/loader.efi

  Initializing modules: ZFS UFS
  Load Path: \efi\boot\BOOTx64.efi
  Load Device: PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x1,0x3)/Pci(0x0,0x2)/Pci(0x4,0x0)/Pci(0x0,0x0)/NVMe(0x1,8D-7F-B1-71-55-38-25-00)/HD(1,GPT,F4EC62C3-B000-4A60-AAA6-7079751A497D,0x800,0x64000)
  BootCurrent: 0003
  BootOrder: 0000 0005 0006 0003[*]
  Probing 12 block devices......+...*.... done
    ZFS found the following pools: tank7
    UFS found no partitions
Failed to load '/boot/loader.efi'
panic: No bootable partions found!

I can import the ZFS pool fine when booting a memstick livefs. Why the loader isn't importing it?

efibootmgr -v gives the following

Code:
BootCurrent: 0005
     Timeout : 5 seconds.
     BootOrder: 0000, 0005, 0006, 0003
       Boot0* Windows Boot Manager HD(5,GPT,5804e565-b8f6-4f47-9314-9eb4cfb79697,0x1d55e000,0x32000)/File(\EFI\MICROSOFT\BOOT\BOOTMGFW.EFI)nvd1p5:/EFI/MICROSOFT/BOOT/BOOTMGFW.EFI (null)
     * Boot5* UEFI OS HD(1,GPT,f4ec62c3-b000-4a60-aaa6-7079751a497d,0x800,0x64000)/File(\EFI\BOOT\BOOTX64.EFI) nvd1p1:/EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.EFI (null)
       Boot6* Hard Drive BBS(HD,,0x0)
       Boot3 UEFI: Built-in EFI Shell VenMedia(5023b95c-db26-429b-a648-bd47664c8012)

I've manually created /EFI/BOOT/BOOTx64.EFI by copying /boot/boot1.efi from the livefs. The content of /EFI is just one file:

EFI/Boot/bootx64.efi

Can I somehow install the /boot/boot1.efifat manually to try to make it working? I am installing FreeBSD 12 by partitioning disk manually so bsdsysinstall doesn't run, and it seems there were some changes around the EFI partition recently, e.g. support for /efi/freebsd/loader.efi.
 
You should explain what are the different disks you have. gpart show would be useful also.

Is tank7 your system pool? If yes, have you set the bootfs property?
zpool set bootfs=tank7/ROOT/default tank7 (Or something like that)
 
Thank you Emrion. Sorry, forgot to mention the disk layout. But bootfs did the trick! I used bsdsysinstall to install FreeBSD but had to partition by hand as there are other partitions on the disk that I didn't want to delete. Apparently the script doesn't go into much details in setting up the bootstrapping if it doesn't partition itself. Many thanks again, you saved my day!
 
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