I've asked this on the -questions list but haven't had any feedback. I have a 
system configured with multiple identical drives each loaded with FreeBSD. When 
I was using MBR partitioning, I could create a boot.config to force the system 
to boot from a specific drive. For example, if I wanted to boot from the second 
drive, I'd create a boot.config with:



1:ad(1,a)/boot/loader



We've switched to GPT partitioning and I can't seem to find a way to do this 
same trick. The boot loader only seems to recognize MBR partitions when it 
comes to this feature. I looked at the boot.c source code and there doesn't 
seem to be anything specifically related to GPT partitioning. I cannot for 
example say something like:



1:ad(1,p3)/boot/loader



where p3 is the root partition in my GPT partitioned drives. So I'm puzzled: If 
I have a two drive system with BSD loaded on both drives and the drives are 
configured with GPT partitions, how can I force the system to boot from the 
second drive using boot.config?

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