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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.