On Fri, 2012-03-09 at 13:44 -0500, Kenneth R Westerback wrote: > > That's interesting, as for me bsd.rd only creates sd0, so I have to find > > the right sdN in dmesg and then "cd /dev; sh MAKEDEV sdN" if I want to > > install OS there... > > > > That strikes me as an interesting error. The install process is > supposed to create any device needed when you select a disk. i.e. > the 'makedev $resp || exit' line at the end of install.sub. > > These days the script even automatically adjusts the list of disks > when devices are plugged in or removed. > > Can you provide more details/confirmation of the need to manually > create devices on 5.1 or -current?
I installed OpenBSD 5.0 on the laptop where I originally spotted this problem, and indeed I had all the inserted hardware detected right and present in installer. Probably I missed some changes - normally I unplug everything during installation. Anyway, sorry for wasting everyone's time on this. -- Dmitrij D. Czarkoff
