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from Steven Friedrich:

> I installed it, but it doesn't boot.  Was i suposed to manually invoke gpart to write bootcode into the freebsd-boot partition?
        
        
> Sent from my PlayStation®Vita system

I have several installations of FreeBSD both on hard-drive GUID partitions and USB sticks.

On the USB sticks, I have three partitions: boot, root and swap, GPT-partitioned.  I use gpart to install bootcode on first partition.

On the hard drives, I don't want to be limited to FreeBSD, want more than one FreeBSD version, plus Linux.

There, I use grub2 from a USB-stick installation of System Rescue CD, adding my own grub2 image to the syslinux menu.

Then,

set root=(hd1,gpt4) # or whatever the actual partition is
insmod ufs2
kfreebsd /boot/loader
boot

Tom