Fixating boot drive

[Warren Block]

On Wed, 1 Feb 2012, bsalinux at gmail.com wrote:

> 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.

Use labels and the device number won't matter:
http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/labels.html