diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/bsdinstall/chapter.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/bsdinstall/chapter.sgml
index 5e996fa4ce..bb9115ae92 100644
--- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/bsdinstall/chapter.sgml
+++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/bsdinstall/chapter.sgml
@@ -1390,8 +1390,8 @@ Trying to mount root from cd9660:/dev/iso9660/FREEBSD_INSTALL [ro]...</screen>
 	<title>Standard &os; <acronym>GPT</acronym> Partitions</title>
 
 	<listitem>
-	  <para><literal>freebsd-boot</literal> - &os; boot code.
-	    This partition must be first on the disk.</para>
+	  <para><literal>freebsd-boot</literal> - &os; boot
+	    code.</para>
 	</listitem>
 
 	<listitem>
@@ -1474,6 +1474,10 @@ Trying to mount root from cd9660:/dev/iso9660/FREEBSD_INSTALL [ro]...</screen>
 	  should use other unique label values as described
 	  above.</para>
 
+	<para>By default, &os;'s <filename>gptboot</filename> expects
+	  the first UFS partition found to be the
+	  <filename>/</filename> partition.</para>
+
 	<informaltable frame="none">
 	  <tgroup cols="4">
 	    <thead>