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Subject: Re: Fixating boot drive
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Why do you need it at a fixed point?  I think glabel should do the trick.

On 2/2/2012 12:42 AM, bsalinux@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm sure this has been asked before. I'm booting a freebsd system from
> a USB stick. It is currently at da0 but if I add physical SATA drives,
> it moves to da2 and further depending on number of drives.
>
> How can I fix the usb disk to be at da32 or some finite number so that
> even if I add more devices, the boot device would still be at a finite
> location.
>
> Thanks.
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