On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 10:08:30AM +0100, Raimo Niskanen wrote:
> Hello misc@!
> 
> I just wanted to share a problem and a solution that I encountered.  Just
> posting to maybe help someone else in the future, and perhaps a developer
> feels that improving a particular error message could be important enough.
> 
> My goal was to create an installation with a fully encrypted hard drive
> using a keydisk, and at first reboot into the installed system I got this:
> 
>     Booting from hard disk...
>     Using drive 0, partition 3.
>     Loading......
>     probing: pc0 com0 com1 mem[638K 3582M 496M a20=on]
>     disk: hd0+ hd1+ hd2 sr0*
>     >> OpenBSD/amd64 BOOT 3.33
>     unknown KDF type 2
>     open(sr0a:/etc/boot.conf): Operation not permitted
>     boot>
> 
> The error message "unknown KDF type 2" is the one that maybe could
> be improved...

This error message has already been improved in -current by sunil@ in r1.3 of
http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/sys/lib/libsa/softraid.c
The message now says ""keydisk not found".

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