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List:       openbsd-misc
Subject:    Re: Installer feature suggestion for the "Which disk is your root disk?" question: If a softraid has
From:       Stefan Sperling <stsp () stsp ! name>
Date:       2017-01-26 17:56:34
Message-ID: 20170126175634.pv67i32577dw4yxb () jim ! stsp ! name
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On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 04:14:34PM +0000, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
> On 2017-01-26, Stefan Sperling <stsp@stsp.name> wrote:
> 
> >> Summary:
> >> I suggest that, for the "Which disk is your root disk?"'s question in the
> >> installer, a logic should be added so that if a softraid has been set up,
> >> then it should be used as default option (rather than the name of the first
> >> physical disk available in the system, as is the case currently, and which
> >> is the healthy default for all other use cases).
> >
> > This has already been fixed:
> > https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=147298414007674&w=2
> 
> Well, that was partially reverted a week later:
> https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=147380197222029&w=2
> 
> | "Make disk selection dumb again", or at least make the change less
> | intrusive. Default to the first available disk, skipping to the next
> | (and so on), should the selected one be determined unsuitable for the
> | install or upgrade taking place.

The behaviour I remember includes this second commit. It selects the
wrong disk the first time through, but just hitting enter is enough
to get the right one selected.
I did not remember that there were two commits which contributed to this.

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