On 2017-01-26, Tinker <ti...@openmailbox.org> wrote:

> When reaching the "Which disk is your root disk?" question in the 
> installer, it will suggest the first physical disk available, normally 
> sd0 or wd0 .
>
> then, it could be a good idea to simply prefill this question with "sd1" 
> (the softraid's device name) instead of sd0.
>
> If the user mistakenly would go on with sd0 he'd wipe his softraid setup 
> and bring the system into an inconsistent state.

Are you talking about (I)nstall or (U)pgrade?

Upgrade doesn't issue any destructive fdisk/disklabel/newfs commands,
so there is no way to "wipe [one's] softraid setup".  Here's what
happens if you just hit RETURN:

...
Terminal type? [vt220] 
Available disks are: sd0 sd1.
Which disk is the root disk? ('?' for details) [sd0] 
sd0 is not a valid root disk.
Available disks are: sd0 sd1.
Which disk is the root disk? ('?' for details) [sd1] 
Checking root filesystem (fsck -fp /dev/sd1a)...OK.
...

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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          na...@mips.inka.de

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