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Date:      Fri, 24 Apr 2015 14:07:26 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To:        Kent Kuriyama <kent.kuriyama@gmail.com>
Cc:        reg@dwf.com, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Install to a Partition problems.
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.20.1504241404180.48036@wonkity.com>
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On Thu, 23 Apr 2015, Kent Kuriyama wrote:

> You need to use MBR vice GPT partitioning.  While GPT can support multiple
> boot partitions, the GPT boot loader doesn't let you interactively choose
> what partition to boot from.  The boot loader for MBR does.

I think that PCBSD uses Grub now, so that should not be necessary. 
bsdinstall ought to be able to install to any given GPT partition, but I 
can't say I have tried that.



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