Booting an iso image from HD for pre-burn testing on FreeBSD

["c4632 at comcast.net" at comcast.net]

Has anyone ever seen, heard of, done it? I'm working on a FreeSBIE-built image (w/ 5.3-Stable) and would like to pre-burn boot the final iso image. 

I can mount and traverse the image fine but want to make sure I've crossed all the t's with an actual boot before I start manufacturing shiny coasters...got enough of those from AOL.



MTIA
--Chris